By Ruth Biedermann —  O’NEALS — The stands on both sides of the football field at Minarets High School filled up with people and excitement. People were cheering for both YHS and Minarets football teams. With the varsity football game ending in the scores of Minarets with 10 to Yosemite with 38, varsity player and senior Christian Varner gave his opinion ...

NORTH FORK – Public Coffee House in North Fork is holding Disney Tribute on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Dress up as your favorite Disney character and join in on some Disney games. There will be a Best Costume Contest and the winner will receive $50. Also, the folks at PCH invite the community to help support ...

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MADERA COUNTY – Flu season is rapidly approaching and with it, the need for flu vaccines, says Madera County Public Health Director Sara Bosse, who invites everyone to “take a page from our book.” “Flu vaccine is like a library,” says Bosse. “Each year when you get a flu shot, you add a book to your library. You have the ...

MADERA COUNTY – Following are details from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office of reports taken locally from Monday, Sept. 3, to Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. Coarsegold motor vehicle stop results in mental health evaluation On Monday, Sept. 3 at 3:46 a.m. a deputy observed a vehicle traveling southbound about 25 miles per hour on CA-41 at Bellview. During a vehicle ...

NORTH FORK — For some of us, the sight of old wood triggers a very specific response: ahhh. Not plywood languishing roadside, or firewood stacked outside the house. We’re talking about architectural wood — the kind of aged paneling that warms like an embrace when you enter the room, for instance, or a marked wooden floor that’s so solid you ...

MADERA COUNTY – It will soon cost more to have your trash collected or to take your household trash to the North Fork Transfer Station. On Aug. 21, the Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of County staff, voted unanimously to increase the tipping fees at the landfill from $40 to $55 per ton as of Oct. 1. “Without the ...

MADERA COUNTY – Following are details from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office of reports taken locally from Monday, Aug. 27, to Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Bass Lake sunken vessel On Monday, Aug. 27 at 3:30 p.m. a deputy was dispatched to a report of a sunken vessel in a docking slip on Bass Lake. The appropriate state agencies were notified. ...

MADERA — Labor Day weekend was a big one for anyone entered in the county fairs, including — and perhaps especially — for Spring Valley 4H member Ashley Rossen. Ashley, 13, is an 8th grade student at Oak Creek Intermediate School in Oakhurst, and on Saturday, Sept. 1 at the Madera County Fair, Ashley took multiple top awards in poultry. ...

It’s not often that one of the History Mysteries gets solved so completely, but when it does happen we think it should be highlighted. Thanks to diligent research of North Fork History Group member Kathy Ellis, and preservation of historic information in the past by Margie (Jeppson) Hensley and Doris Scovel, every person in History Mystery #59 was identified. The ...