Dora Mae Demorest King Rotondo passed away at the age of 100 on Nov. 6, 2025, in Rapid City, S.D. Dora was born on April 9, 1925, in Tacoma, Wash., to Howard and Mabel Demorest. She lived in Tacoma ...

Rhonda Lynn Turner-Shackleton, of Catheys Valley, passed away peacefully on Nov. 5, 2025 at the age of 64. Rhonda was born in Yosemite Valley, Calif., on Feb. 10, 1961, to “Dee” Dolores J. (Turner) ...

As workers return to Yosemite National Park after the federal government shutdown there is a foreboding sense of more trouble to come. Park employees still worry about a so-called Reduction in Force ...

I’ve had some interesting conversations over the past, well, several years actually, about what’s up with various organizations in Mariposa County. Just last week we reported a story about what ...

Inside this week’s edition is our annual salute to area veterans and what they have meant to the country. The edition features several area veterans, important information and more.

Nowhere in the mountain area is theater better represented than here in the town of Mariposa. I refer neither to the Arts Council, nor to our worthy high school theater. Instead, I refer to the dark ...

Sheldon Ball and his daughter, Allison, are shown in this photo from the Honor Flight they recently took to Washington. A Mariposa County man was a recent participant in the Honor Flight program ...

As everyone knows, we are almost a month into this current government shutdown. Orders from the Secretary of the Interior dictate parks remain open to the public even as staff is greatly reduced.

In searching for its latest CEO, the John C. Fremont Healthcare District didn’t engage in an elaborate and expensive national search. Instead, the board of directors wasted no time picking a ...

My name is Lisa Edelheit and I’m running for Mariposa County District 1 Board of Supervisor. I have lived in Midpines for the past 38 years with my husband, Charles, where we raised our son, a ...

With just a couple games remaining in the regular season, the Mariposa County High School Grizzlies varsity flag football team has already secured the title of league champs once again this year. In a ...

Hazel Green “comfort” station. Photo by Linda Shepler In the summer of 1867, one of those chance events that can alter history took place. Transplanted easterners Dr. and Mrs. John McLean and son ...