Recycled Garden Project: Dressers! Like these creative gardeners, turn a dresser into a garden potting bench, planter box or ‘stage’ to display garden treasures. Linda Gladman’s dressed up dresser

NORTH FORK – Long-time North Fork resident Rikk Hansen has decades of experience helping people take the next step on their lifework path. This weekend, Hansen will hold a free workshop at the North Fork Studio, on Sunday, June 15, designed to “Reignite Lifework Purpose and Passion.”

From the Eastern Madera County SPCA’s Pet Scoop Animal Shelter Progress – Eastern Madera County SPCA (EMC SPCA) has been working for many years to fulfill its dream of building a no-kill animal shelter. That dream is close to becoming a reality. Over the past couple of years, SPCA members have worked closely with its architect Alan Hendry, and Madera ...

If you’ve been dreaming of painting your home and you want a pulled-together, designer look, it’s time to move forward and make those dreams a reality. I know that selecting paint colors can be stressful and I won’t say “it’s only paint” since paint today can be expensive and the process time-consuming. I hope that you’ve read my previous Color ...

OAKHURST/BASS LAKE – You’ll have multiple chances to do good while eating well in the coming days, and here are a few of your options. On Sunday, Mar. 16, the youth group at United Methodist Church is holding a potato bake, and Vision Academy of the Arts is hosting a corned beef and cabbage fundraiser, all in one place. On ...

MARIPOSA – When a California Gold Country couple found a stash of pristine old coins while dog-walking on their nearly bankrupt property, word spread faster than they could say “Eureka!” Dubbed the “Saddle Ridge Hoard” for the space on the couple’s land where the dirt-crusted fortune was accidentally discovered in rusty cans, experts estimate the find to be the most ...

Meeting Bill Hayman Now and then, we at Flea Market Gardening host a virtual garden tour. This gives our folks, all over, the chance to show off the blooms in their gardens no matter what season! This time we visit Billie Hayman in her Louisiana garden.

O’NEALS – For the third time in as many years the Sophomore Honors History Class at Minarets High School honored local veterans with a dinner and a day of personal interviews, learning from the life experience of those who serve. The special Veterans Day Dinner Project, held this year on Nov. 12, was the brainchild of then World and U.S. ...

Television programming about staging has been misleading viewers about what Real Estate Staging really is. Hopefully this list, the information and the photos will help clarify some of the misunderstandings. The goal of staging is to: Help a house sell for the most money possible, in the shortest amount of time.

YOSEMITE — “Thank you for calling. We are currently closed due to a government shutdown of National Parks. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you.” That’s the gist of The Wawona Hotel’s outgoing phone message, a polite yet inconclusive recording that lets callers know that the historic Wawona will reopen “as soon as possible.”