Friday, October 11th through Sunday, October 13th. OAKHURST, CA – The 27th Annual Oakhurst Fall Festival, located at the south gate entrance to Yosemite National Park, and presented by the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the entertainment line-up for the festival from Friday, October 11 through Sunday, October 13. Save the date for a full weekend ...

SONORA, CALIFORNIA – Sierra and Stanislaus National forests are hosting a public engagement session Aug. 12 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., to gather information on a resiliency project within the national forests. Participants will help develop the proposed action for a new large-landscape vegetation project. SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST Forest Headquarters 1600 Tollhouse Road Clovis, CA 93611 1 p.m. – ...

Hello Sierra Art Trails artists, supporters, and friends, The 2019 “All Artists Meeting” will be held on Sunday, August 18th at Queen’s Inn in Oakhurst. Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The meeting is an important milestone leading up to the show, a chance for artists to get to know each other, our volunteers and supporters, and the planning committee ...

Effective June 13, 2019, Board Trustee for Area 1 of Yosemite Unified School District, Tim Curley, resigned from office. August 5, 2019, Anne Flanagan was appointed as Provisional Trustee to Area 1 effective August 19, 2019 through December 2020. Unless a petition calling for a special election, containing a sufficient number of signatures, is filed in the office of the ...

Glen C. Dibble of Kamiah, Idaho, passed away on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 12:09 p.m. after every life saving measure was taken. He died after being diagnosed with a liver infection that lead to a multi-organ failure.  His loving wife was at his side every chance she could get.  Glen was 78 years old. Glen is survived by his ...

MARIPOSA – After another wet winter and above average snow pack, warming temperatures and winds are quickly drying out the abundant annual grass crop. The increasing fire danger posed by the high volume of dead grass and hotter, drier conditions in the region is prompting CAL FIRE to suspend all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within the State Responsibility ...

Wishon – Cal Fire responded this morning to reports of a single vehicle accident involving an Emadco garbage truck colliding with a power pole on Cedar Lane and Sierra Linda Drive in Wishon. First responder was Cal Fire’s Engine 4275, who reported a broken power pole leaning against some overhead wires and arcing into a tree. No road blockage reported. CHP ...

NORTH FORK – At 7:50 a.m. this morning, Cal Fire, CHP and EMS responded to reports of a single vehicle accident involving a big rig truck on Road 200 near Mountain View Peak Road, approximately five miles southwest of the Bass Fork Valero gas station in North Fork. According to CHP, the driver of the big rig, age and name ...

NORTH FORK – Crews are on scene of a structure fire burning near the east end of Pine Tree Lane in the Leisure Acres area. Just before 3:30 p.m., firefighters were called out to reports of smoke near Duke Road. The first unit on scene found one structure involved with spread to the surrounding vegetation. Cal Fire, Madera County Fire, ...

Katherine Lea Jones of Oakhurst, California passed away on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at the age of 84. ‘Kathy,’ as she was known to her friends, was born in Oklahoma on July 28, 1934. She grew up in Tulare County, California, and graduated from Dinuba High School in 1952. Kathy was a resident of Oakhurst for 57 years. After a ...