Editor, As the Alaska Type 2 Incident Management Team departs California after two weeks managing the Creek Fire, we would like to extend our thanks to the residents of Fresno, Madera and Mono counties who were impacted by the fire and our presence managing it. Your support, cooperation, patience and resilience has been appreciated and inspiring. We would like to ...

Dear Editor, Yosemite National park only recommends, but does not require, face coverings when people are inside groceries, hotels, public areas. Having people inside buildings without face coverings puts Park personnel, visitors, hotel guests and concessionaire employees at risk. And it will affect local communities’ economies if the park has a Covid outbreak and needs to be shut down. Since ...

As a resident of Yosemite Lakes Park (YLP) for 20 years I do not often see people walking or biking along the street, children riding their bikes to school or mothers or fathers pushing their child in a stroller to the park. My home community is a wonderful place to live, however it is exposed to a number of environmental ...

Dear Editor: I had a lesson in local civics last night. Foolish me, I thought our representatives were elected or appointed to represent the citizens. Instead, the Madera County Planning Commission voted to approve the development of a RV and camping park with 109 RV spaces and a 100 or so other types of spaces to serve as many as ...

The Madera County Deputy Sheriff’s Association would like to take this opportunity to respond to Paul Hornick’s comments about our Association and our endorsement of Sally Orme Moreno for Madera County District Attorney, Setting the Record Straight, I would like to start off by saying that this is not an attack, but to provide the truth in regards to information ...

I would like to ask my fellow citizens of Madera to join with me and vote for Sally Orme Moreno for District Attorney. Sally is extremely qualified for the job of District Attorney but more than that, she is part of our community that is making a difference every day by her words and deeds. Sally is a volunteer who ...

As Madera County faces a number of challenges, the one that concerns me the most is crime and how we are going to address this growing problem. The California Legislature continues to introduce laws that are “handcuffing” our law enforcement officials and that is why more than ever we need to elect officials who know how to fight back and ...

I support and am voting for Sally Moreno to be our next Madera County District Attorney and ask all that want to see a safer Madera County consider doing the same. I had worked and/or lived in the City or County of Madera for the vast majority of the last 42 years, 28 or those as an attorney regularly present ...

Wildfires are getting bigger, stronger, and more frequent. Six of the most destructive wildfires in California’s history have occurred in just the past ten months. Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists agree the major cause of increased fires is global warming. Our Congressman Tom McClintock doesn’t want to believe them. He is a climate change denier. McClintock insists that “the ...

On October 1, 2018 Congressman Tom McClintock, along with Congressmen Jeff Denham, David Valadao, Devin Nunes, and Kevin McCarthy met with President Donald Trump as he signed a water memorandum that will return water to the Central Valley of California. It will also address water projects in Washington and Oregon. As we have seen, the choices we made two generations ...