MADERA COUNTY – District 5 Supervisor Tom Wheeler announces a few important events coming up in the next month. This Tuesday, July 8, there will be a special Town Hall meeting at the Oakhurst Community Center from 6 to 8 p.m. to discuss crime in the mountains and explore solutions.

MADERA COUNTY – Todd Miller was sworn in today as Madera County Auditor Controller during the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Miller defeated incumbent Marcia Hall in the June 3rd primary election, and Hall tendered her resignation the next day, declining to serve out the balance of her term.

MADERA COUNTY – While the frivolous band of gentlemen of E Clampus Vitus, affectionately known as the Clampers, are well known for their copious merrymaking and love a good practical joke, they are first and foremost dedicated to the promotion and preservation of western history. On a bright summer morning the last week of school, a contingent of the Grub ...

MADERA COUNTY – Firefighters were kept busy this afternoon, battling two blazes on opposite sides of the county. The River Fire started in Ahwahnee just after 2 p.m. in a garage behind a residence on Road 621. It spread into surrounding vegetation, consuming over two-and-a-half acres before firefighters stopped the forward progress.

SACRAMENTO – California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Director Ken Pimlott has issued an order to suspend open burning across 31 million acres of State Responsibility Area (SRA) in California. The suspended burning order is part of CAL FIRE’s continued efforts to mitigate the increased threat of wildfire due to the state’s drought emergency. “The increase in ...

OAKHURST – It’s nearly impossible to have escaped the news of Calfornia’s drought, particularly in a region with unbreakable ties to the results of snowpack and rainfall. With a barrage of media regularly reporting on the issues faced by the state in general, and our area in particular, concerns mount and questions arise. Now, answers to some of those questions ...

Supervisor Farinelli to hold community meeting on Public SafetyRepresentatives from public safety community to discuss gang and drug prevention Madera, Calif. – Madera County Supervisor Rick Farinelli will host a community meeting to discuss public safety and gang prevention in Madera County. The meeting has been scheduled to take place on Monday, June 23rd, 2014 at 6:00 PM at the ...

Submitted by Kristi Winter MADERA COUNTY – Hundreds of Valley residents enjoyed attended the first Madera County ArtsFest on Saturday, June 14, at the Madera County Office of Education. The Madera County Schools Foundation and Madera County Office of Education hosted this free family-friendly event promoting art in Madera County.

CALIFORNIA – With current drought conditions and everyone on high alert, attention to wildland firefighting has been heightened for many residents in the foothills and mountain area. We all see the engines, water tenders and crews rolling in to fight these fires, but perhaps the most spectacular sight from the vantage point most of us have, is the work of ...

We asked readers to pay tribute to the dads in their lives, and in the days since, have received a treasure trove of photographs in return. The pictures poured in online, and we saw dads wading, swimming, fishing, hiking, biking, playing and sleeping. One after another came young dads, old dads, some with tattoos, many with beards, and a couple ...