Mariposa News

To rural politicians, it's like the ominous sound of an approaching earthquake. Word that politicians in Sacramento are working on a comprehensive bill aimed at addressing some huge, statewide problem is generally chilling news for those in charge of water districts, school districts, cities and counties up here in the hills.

Good people are doing remarkable things, according to a local agency that wants to hear about it.

H1N1 vaccine clinics will continue around the Central Valley on Friday. Families in Mariposa County will be given the vaccine, from 2-3 p.m. at the Wawona Community Center.

Since we are facing a possible El Nio winter, I felt an exploration of possible flooding is in order.

Two prisoners who escaped from the Sierra Conservation Center's Mount Bullion Conservation Camp in Mariposa have been apprehended.

When Berl Howell isn't home to answer his telephone, a lively jazz tune plays in the background as he asks the caller to leave a message.

Mariposa County has announced openings on several planning committees. The county is seeking to fill vacancies on the planning advisory committees for Midpines, El Portal, Greeley Hill and Yosemite West, as well as the Historic Sites & Records Preservation Commission.

State Sen. Dave Cogdill announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election in 2010.

The Internal Revenue Service said there were 151 refunds from Merced County taxpayers returned to the IRS by the Post Office as undeliverable last year.

Last year Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties received a joint grant of nearly $400,000 to help manage household hazardous waste.

A defendant accused of killing a 60-year-old Greeley Hill man was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Mariposa County jury Thursday.

The California Department of Corrections is on the hunt for two escaped inmates.

The Orange County Environmental Health agency posted a beach closure Monday, Nov.

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Cram Elementary School piled into their 12-week long art class Friday ready to use American artist Georgia O'Keeffe's classic techniques as inspiration for their own projects.

Upon entering a home, when a visitor sees an attractive table setting, the thought isn't as much, "What a lovely plate," but "What a beautiful woman." And whenever you enter a certain gift shop in Mariposa, the same feeling pervades.

The Merced Fire Bomb Squad is on it's way to an area near Mariposa where a suspicious pipe has been found.

I don't know what the weather was like in the Central Valley earlier this week, but here in the foothills we had a light storm that brought only enough rain to wet the ground.

Under a concrete bridge built in 1926, where slow-moving Bear Creek flows into the Merced River near Briceburg, David Hester was working hard.

John C. Fremont Hospital Foundation's annual Black & White Ball will have the theme, "A Night on the Orient Express," Nov.

The central San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada should begin drying out this morning after the first storm of the season moves on, leaving behind power outages and a mind-boggling amount of rainfall.