MARIPOSA – Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings – brought to you by The Mariposa County Arts Council and its many fine sponsors – continues into the 2015 season, presenting live, in concert, Cottonwood Creek, featuring Maggie Watkins and Scott Patrick Little on Friday, July 31, and The Little Fuller Band on Saturday, Aug. 1. Local Mariposa singer/songwriter Scott Patrick Little and ...

YOSEMITE – State Route 140 at El Portal is closed at the Yosemite National Park boundary in Mariposa County due to a mudslide. The El Portal entrance to the Park  is shut down today and meanwhile, alternate routes are necessary to gain entry to the Park. The road closed overnight on Tuesday, July 21, due to heavy debris flows following ...

Written by Ronnie Sweeting – Producer/Mariposa Evenings MARIPOSA – Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings – the summer concert series brought to you by the Mariposa County Arts Council and it’s many fine sponsors – enters the halfway point of the 2015 season, presenting The Mountain Men on Friday, July 24, and The Horse’s Mac on Saturday, July 25, at the Mariposa ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – After a week-long social media sting operation, the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Matthew A. Tilton, 25, of Mariposa, on charges relating to contacting a minor for sexual purposes. Once the Sheriff’s Office received reports of Tilton having inappropriate conversations with minors on social media, investigators initiated the social media operation to contact Tilton. The conversations ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office is notifying residents that all phone lines are down for those areas serviced by the Hornitos Telephone Company TDS. The AT&T main service line, as well as the backup fiber optic lines, were cut in the Stockton area. Several Central Valley counties and cities have been affected. AT&T and TDS are aware ...

MARIPOSA – Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings – brought to you by the Mariposa County Arts Council and it’s many fine sponsors – continues this year’s free summer concert series at the Mariposa County Art Park with performances by The Blue Skies Trio, featuring Jacquie McCourt, on Friday, July 17, and The Well on Saturday, July 18. The seasoned musicians who ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – On July 8, 2015 the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office along with the US Forest Service, conducted a marijuana eradication operation in the Sierra National Forest. The garden, located in the Signal Peak area, was identified as an illegal Mexican Cartel Drug Trafficking Operation. While entering the garden complex, members of the eradication team located two subjects. One ...

MARIPOSA – The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office has graciously accepted a donation of seven Automated External Defibrillators, otherwise known as AEDs, from Rick Roesch, owner of Mercy Ambulance. An automated external defibrillator is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses life-threatening ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient. This is when the heart’s chambers “fibrillate” in an unsynchronized way, ...

Written by Ronnie Sweeting – Producer/Mariposa Evenings MARIPOSA – Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings – brought to you by The Mariposa County Arts Council and its many fine sponsors – presents, live in concert, John Cardenas & the Wise Guys on Friday, July 10, and Moon in Leo on Saturday, July 11. The Wise Guys, with vocalist John Cardenas, pay homage ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – Fireworks are illegal in Mariposa County, and those who violate the fireworks laws are subject to a maximum of $1,000 fine and up to one year in county jail. However, if you possess large quantities of dangerous fireworks, prosecutors could charge you with a felony, punishable by up to three years in California state prison and fines up ...