Real Goods Solar offers gifts Friday for your gift of blood CLOVIS – It takes between 5,000 to 6,000 pints of blood a month to meet the needs of residents in the Central Valley. Can you help meet that goal? You have the chance to help save lives, and do something for the environment too, during the Central California Blood ...

The Great Sierra River Cleanup is coming to the foothills for the fourth year and there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to join in on the fun while cleaning up our rivers. Food, drinks, prizes, tools, and equipment will be provided depending on the location. Join in and put a team together. The Great Sierra River Cleanup is sponsored ...

9/11 remembrance includes music, speakers, military honors and lunchEveryone is invited to Sierra Telephone’s 11th annual Patriot Day at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, outside the Sierra Tel offices at 49150 Road 426 in Oakhurst. The event is being organized, as it has every year since 2002, to show appreciation to all veterans, active duty military and emergency services ...

Cal Fire crews from the San Diego area have been keeping busy during their detail to the mountain area. Five engines and a strike team leader from the southern end of the state have been stationed around the Eastern Madera and Mariposa County area since Monday, Aug. 24, and have had plenty to do. They were hard at work Tuesday, ...

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 ...

OAKHURST – Tawney Jeffries, 44 of Oakhurst, was arrested on Friday, Aug. 31, and charged with felony DUI while causing injuries to others. According to the CHP report, Jeffries, who was impaired by alcohol, was traveling westbound on Road 426 just past Elliott Road at 6:25 p.m. last Friday, when she lost control of her 2006 Dodge Caravan. After swerving ...

What started as a day of celebration and a motorcycle ride to the mountains ended with two people being transported to the hospital. Augie, 52, and Connie Colmenero, 42, of Fresno, along with his brother Joseph and five others, headed for the mountains on their Harleys on Monday, for a holiday weekend ride. “We came up to enjoy the day, ...

Local charities receive almost $1,300 from Visitors Bureau – OAKHURST – Proceeds from the Bass Lake Classic Triathlon and 5K run, held on June 2, were awarded to local not-for-profit organizations that provided the much-needed volunteer group to ensure the race could happen. Volunteers helped with traffic control, parking, course set up and athlete safety.

This weekend’s car show at the Oakhurst Community Center is shaping up to be a good one. It will bring at least 120 classic cars and their owners to the area. More than 50 special class awards will be given in the Sierra-Oakhurst Kiwanis Club’s 10th annual Run for the Gold Classic Car Show. These include a Special Camaro Award ...

August 30, 2012 MADERA — A Madera County Superior Court jury found David Gary Jaquez guilty Wednesday, Aug. 29, of four felony counts of child molestation, according to Madera County District Attorney Michael R. Keitz.