MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES — The UC Master Food Preservers of Mariposa County currently serve residents in Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Fresno and Tuolumne Counties. Their volunteers live and reside in those counties and offer demonstrations, workshops, and outreach to these counties. They are a relatively new program, started in 2022. Their program will be holding a volunteer training class from September to ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES — Please join Madera County District 5 Supervisor Bobby Macaulay tomorrow night for an informative online town hall meeting via Zoom. This meeting will include a discussion on insurance and resources available to help you harden your home against wildfire. Supervisor Macaulay will be joined by, among others, Justin Macomb from Cal Fire and Richie M. Sayavong from ...

YOSEMITE — Get ready to explore the exciting new world of digital art applications with award-winning illustrator and graphic designer Lauren Ball. Before COVID struck, Lauren led the Digital Arts Group for Yosemite Sierra Artists (YSA) and was instrumental in transitioning and rebranding Yosemite Western Artists to YSA. Your iPad and computer can open a new world of artistic expression ...

A milestone is celebrated as student headcount for this past academic year (summer 2019, fall 2019, spring 2020) increased to 13,603 annually. Preliminary student headcount for the Fall 2020 semester is 9,066 (a 5% increase) compared to 8,602 for the Fall 2019 semester (final headcount for the Fall 2020 semester will be available in January). About 1,491 (or 16%) are ...