OAKHURST – Vitally important to the well-being of any good-size community, and essential for its economic growth, Adult Education has nonetheless been hammered by budget cuts since the great recession hit California’s schools six years ago. Now, thanks to a restoration of funding and the cooperative efforts of a consortium of school districts including colleges, adult education is about to ...

Submitted by Robyn Flory NORTH FORK – Students have been hard at work preparing for the North Fork School’s 26th Annual 8th Grade Play, to be presented on Friday, Mar. 27. This year’s play is called “Happily Never After!” and is a comedy about what might happen if our Fairy Tale Prince and Princesses really didn’t live happily ever after. ...

MADERA COUNTY – Coarsegold Elementary School’s 7th grade and Thomas Jefferson Middle School’s 8th grade teams won the Madera County Academic Pentathlon Math Tournament on Friday. Sixteen schools and nearly 175 students participated in the Math Tournament hosted by the Madera County Office of Education.

OAKHURST – Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotary and Branches Books & Gifts have partnered to bring books to schools, promoting learning, literacy and community between the service organization, local business and Wasuma Elementary School. Tim Madden, Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotary President contacted Anne Driscoll of Branches Books & Gifts at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year to propose a partnership.

MADERA COUNTY – Madera County’s middle school students will be putting their minds to the test at this year’s 2015 Math Tournament. Students will take three tests: Individual Endurance, Circuit Training and Relay Race this Friday at the Madera Center. During the Circuit Training teams will be given 20 questions and 2 ½ minutes per question moving through a circuit.

YOSEMITE – The third annual Law Day Yosemite will take place on Friday, May 1, at 10 a.m., in Yosemite Valley at the Yosemite Elementary School field, facing Yosemite Falls. Approximately 350 eighth grade students from 10 schools in and around Yosemite National Park will gather to celebrate the Rule of Law. The theme for this year’s Law Day Yosemite ...

OAKHURST – A foursome of talented Yosemite High School students is directing and performing in two one-act plays for the public, with the shows launching as their Senior Projects, and proceeds going to benefit a valley women’s shelter.

OAKHURST – Early January got our members back in the groove at the Boys & Girls Club (BGC) of Oakhurst, while spectacularly warm weather brought toy car painting. Joe Mouck made the whole car himself!

COARSEGOLD – A local high school teacher is quickly growing a favored dream into reality, as Minarets instructor Matt Powers has written volumes of text designed to teach the science of permaculture to teenage students, before they get to college.

NORTH FORK – “If we can’t find you, we can’t help you,” has long been the motto of those working to ensure everyone has a green reflective house number sign on their driveway. Students at North Fork School are now onboard with this mission, working with the North Fork Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary (NFVFDA) to help first responders by selling ...