For those of you looking forward to the nice, straight road between O’Neals and North Fork with the completion of the Road 200 project, there will still be one little snag in your commute. The bridge over Fine Gold Creek is not part of the project. “It’s unfortunate that we didn’t have the funding needed to include the bridge replacement ...
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I Have IC, But IC Doesn't Have Me!
My name is Amanda, I have Interstitial Cystitis, but Interstitial Cystitis doesn’t have ME. Once I thought that. I would like to take this opportunity to share my story with you, on my journey through diagnosis and my daily life with “IC”. My diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis is much like the story of millions of other women across the United ...
Read More »North Fork Rancheria Casino Approved
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today concurred with the Department of the Interior’s decisions to allow 305 acres in Madera County to be placed in trust for the North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians for the purpose of establishing a class III gaming facility and signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the ...
Read More »Electric Vehicles – North Fork Welcomes You!
Electric vehicles in the mountain area?! Yes, we got ’em! OK not a lot, but we’ve got to start somewhere and Don Loweburg, long time resident of North Fork and owner of Offline Solar, along with the North Fork Community Development Council (NFCDC) have made electric vehicles and their owners more welcome to travel, play and stay in our communities. ...
Read More »Steps Taken To Protect North Fork Community Mural
Residents of North Fork have grown accustomed to seeing Joan Constable’s beautiful community mural on the side of the North Fork Market. They have also grown used to seeing it defaced by vandals who seem to take great pleasure in spraying it with graffiti.
Read More »Live Music at the North Fork Pizza Factory
The Pizza Factory in North Fork has started a new tradition – Live Music on Tuesday Nights! Every Tuesday, one of the local groups comes out to entertain, and it is a treat to have live music in North Fork this summer! Performers so far have included: Amy Duke, accompanied by Dave Novell of Sugar Pine fame; the very lively ...
Read More »Can You Hear Me Now? Cell Tower for North Fork Approved!
In a unanimous vote, the Madera County Board of Supervisors has given the green light to the new Verizon cell phone tower in the Cascadel area above North Fork. The Board voted 4-0 to approve the re-zoning application and conditional use permit to allow the project to proceed. Supervisor Frank Bigelow (whose family owns Ponderosa Telephone Co.) absented himself from ...
Read More »The History of North Fork
Sheltered by the vast Sierra Nevada mountain range and at the exact center of California, North Fork is a little town with a big heart. This amiable mountain village is home to artisans, writers, innovators and business folks, the hearty descendants of Mono Indians and logging and ranching families. .Residents include families who have lived here for generations, retirees who ...
Read More »History Of North Fork
Sheltered by the vast Sierra Nevada mountain range and at the exact center of California, North Fork is a little town with a big heart. This amiable mountain village is home to artisans, writers, innovators and business folks, the hearty descendants of Mono Indians and logging and ranching families.
Read More »Construction To Begin At North Fork Fire Station
NORTH FORK — Thanks to the ingenuity and dedication of Madera County, the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the North Fork Community Development Council (CDC), a new volunteer fire station in the mountain community of North Fork will finally be under way. “As a life-long resident of North Fork, I can’t begin to explain how near and dear ...
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