Sally and I headed up to Saddlebag Lake in the Tioga Pass Area for 4 days of camping, fishing and hiking. We had darn near perfect weather and I even spent some time trying to locate some of the old mining roads in the area.
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Picking Up The Pieces
OAKHURST – Since I hadn’t really left the house since Monday when the fire broke out, this seemed like a good day to drop my no-school-today teenager at the movies and drive north to see what was happening in the aftermath of the Junction Fire, a beast that screamed through Oakhurst with a rate of speed and intensity that had ...
Read More »Summer Reading Program Award Winners
NORTH FORK – Kids really looked forward to Wednesdays this summer as the North Fork Library let young readers get hands-on during their Summer Reading Program, Paws to Read. Kids from 4 years of age to 12th grade participated every Wednesday afternoon in fun projects with special guests. And of course, they got to explore the wonderful world of books.
Read More »Six Thousand Miles From Home
OAKHURST – More than thirty Chinese students traveled from China to San Francisco and then drove to Oakhurst on Sunday, July 20. They arrived late in the afternoon for a welcoming ice cream social at Sierra Vista Church, looking around for their host families with shy and anxious smiles. They were being picked up by strangers who would become known ...
Read More »Mariposa Grove to Biledo Meadows Hike
White, orange, yellow, blue, and purple flowers showed off for us on this hike. Some were striped and some had dots. We also saw bugs and butterflies flitting around the flowers. We even saw young bucks still in velvet and we almost got hit by a mob of turkeys while flying home. What a nice hike that was close by ...
Read More »Summer So Far At The Boys And Girls Club
OAKHURST – The first weekend in May at the Oakhurst Boys and Girls Club (BGC) kicked off strong , as the Club was represented in San Francisco at the 108th National Boys and Girls Club Conference. It was a weekend of fabulous trainings, demonstrations, and a great learning experience I was able to bring home to our very own Oakhurst ...
Read More »Oakhurst World War II Veteran Recalls 1944 Battle Of The Bulge
“Well, here I am in a foreign land again. I saw a Dutch windmill the other day, and it’s just like in the books I used to read, but you don’t see any flowers or rosy-cheeked girls in sun bonnets. Instead, you see shell craters, ruined houses. Some of the girls are pretty, but I wouldn’t trade two dozen of ...
Read More »Hiking and Fishing With Sally in Little Lakes Valley
Sally and I packed up our dog food and fishing gear to head over to Little Lakes Valley, above Rock Creek Lake south of Mammoth Lakes for 3 days of hiking and fishing. We saw so many beautiful lakes and snow flecked peaks, it was hard to keep count.
Read More »Baker Swim Complex Opens For Summer
OAKHURST – The Yosemite Unified School District has announced that the Baker Swim Complex opening day is Monday, June 9, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Baker Swim Complex is on the campus of Yosemite High School. According to organizers, the regular lap and recreational swim schedule runs Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Read More »Civil War Skirmishes Heat Up In Mariposa
MARIPOSA – Do you love the smell of gunpowder in the morning? If so, please note: the Las Mariposas Civil War Group, in partnership with the American Civil War Association, invites the community to attend an authentic period weekend of living history this Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 12 and 13 just north of Mariposa.
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