OAKHURST–The weekend of Saturday, August 28 and Sunday, August 29 brings together two area icons:  Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park partnered with Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. The organizations share much in common in interpreting the history of our southern Yosemite/Sierra Nevada region. This isn’t the first time the two have joined together in projects. Fresno Flats assisted the ...

08/28/2021 - 08/29/2021 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Fresno Flats and Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad are teaming up to bring you Pioneer Days! If your kids loved Pioneer Camp at Fresno Flats this summer, then they will go crazy over this! We'll be hand crafting toys, candles, rope, wooden shakes and also there will be kids games, gold panning, folk dancing; and [...]

Here’s your guide to what’s happening in our world all the way from Fish Camp to Madera. Want to know more about any event? Contact information and websites, where available, are listed below. Tuesday, August 17  Coarsegold Stampede Barrel Racing Time: 7:30 pm Location: Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds 44777 Rodeo Grounds Lane, Coarsegold, CA 93614 View Website Phone: (559) 281-5619 Email: coarsegoldstampede@gmail.com We Are One Art Exhibit Occurs: ...

Sure wasn’t an easy hike up to the top of 13,061′ Mount Dana with 3,000′ gain in elevation over 2 1/2 miles, full of rocks of every size, shape and slipperiness on switchbacks too many to count. All of my hard work was richly rewarded with many Pikas and Marmots paying visits along the route. Where: Yosemite National ParkDistance: 5.41 ...

SONORA — Trisha Jacobs, whose name you may also see listed as Patricia Jacobs Chalk, lives and breathes fire. As in Mountain Fire & Emergency. But there are two sides to Trisha’s story. The before and after, as it were. The Before As one of the names most associated with the Mountain Fire and Emergency Facebook Group, she’s made it ...

There’s lots happening up and down the foothills this week. Get out there and enjoy all our communities have to offer. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 Oakhurst Farmer’s Market ~ Thursday Nights Thursday, Aug 12, 2021 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Bryant’s Ace Hardware (previously True Value Homecenter) 40596 Westlake Dr/Hwy 49, Oakhurst, CA 93644 View Website FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 Axis Music ...

Oakhurst – TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2021 Coarsegold Stampede Barrel Racing – 7:30 pm Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds 44777 Rodeo Grounds Lane, Coarsegold, CA 93614 View Website Madera County Arts Council & Circle Gallery 10 AM – 6 PM 424 N. Gateway Drive, Madera, CA 93637 Occurs: Every week on Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, until August 27, 2021 View Website WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, ...

On August 6, Music on the Green will feature a double bill of Hank Lamar opening the show and Tommy V. and the Creekers finishing. Originally from Mariposa, Hank Lamar is a singer/songwriter who is not to be missed. His finely crafted songs, masterful finger picking, and powerful singing will have the art park captivated from the first note or ...

Fireweed was the star of the wildflower show on my looped hike from Bridalveil Campground through Empire Meadows. A sea of brilliant pink with crazy billowy blooms were throughout the Empire Fire burn. Wildflowers are putting on a tremendous show right now in the meadows off of Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park and if you want to see ...

Mort Lasnik, cake baker, cat lover, wood worker, model ship builder, stamp and coin collector, card and game player, and the Will Rogers of confections (“He never met a sweet that he did not like”), died on Saturday, July 17, 2021, at age 94. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 18, 1927, as the youngest of four boys and the ...