NORTH FORK – A community meeting on the North Fork Bioenergy Project will be held on Wednesday, Apr. 29, at Fire Station 11 on the Old Mill Site, 33400 Douglas Ranger Station Road from 5:30 to 8 p.m. This event is hosted by the North Fork Community Development Council and coordinated by the Sierra Resource Conservation District.

NORTH FORK – The North Fork Community Development Council (CDC) invites the public to their annual meeting on Monday, Mar. 23, at the Rancheria Community Center. Refreshments will be served at 5 p.m, and the meeting starts at 5:30, with updates on the Biomass Energy Project, downtown North Fork, District 5 and North Fork Rancheria Projects, and the Chawanakee School ...

NORTH FORK – As the community of North Fork welcomes a biomass energy plant at the old mill site, residents are being asked to voice their opinions on the project. Henry Swisher, a master of arts student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, is conducting a research thesis on community-scale renewable energy projects as part of his M.A. ...

NORTH FORK – The North Fork Community Development Council (CDC) will hold their annual meeting on Monday, Mar. 17, at the Mono Rancheria Community Center. The public is encouraged to attend.

TWAIN HARTE – A YouTube video is causing quite a stir over the cause of the now 219,277 acre Rim Fire that has been ripping through Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, and Yosemite National Park for the past two weeks. Todd McNeal, Twain Harte Fire Chief and Division Group Supervisor on the Rim Fire, addressed a community meeting last week, where ...

YOSEMITE – Yosemite National Park firefighters conducted two days of ignition operations and completed the 150 acre Wawona Northwest Segment B Prescribed Fire Monday evening, Apr. 22. Firefighters have begun mop-up activities to secure the fire perimeter. Those actions may include burning out of interior islands and pockets of unburned fuel that could flare up and threaten existing fire perimeter ...

NORTH FORK – Everyone is invited to the annual meeting of the North Fork Community Developement Council (CDC) on Monday, Mar. 11, at the NF Mono Rancheria Community Center. The CDC has been working for nearly 20 years to clean up and develop the Old Mill Site and make property available for businesses to set up shop, and help boost ...

Yosemite Fire Crew 6 is working near Swinging Bridge conducting a hazardous fuel reduction project. They are cutting, piling and mechanically thinning dense vegetation including shade tolerant conifers such as incense cedar, white fir and ponderosa pine. They are also clearing accumulated dead biomass on the forest floor like sticks and logs. You will hear chain saws and see crews ...

At long last, after many years of fits and starts and an entire community pitching in to make things happen, the residents of North Fork have broken ground on a new Fire Station. A crowd of over 200 gathered at the mill site on Thursday, March 29th, to celebrate all the people who have worked so hard to bring the ...