Alice Hibpsham

Alice Virginia Reid Hibpshman of Mariposa was born on April 21, 1931 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. A second-generation Californian, she was the second daughter of James Anthony and Anita Lois (Harmon) Reid. Her father’s occupation as a mining foreman took their family to many locations around the world. Anticipating the Japanese invasion of the Philippine Islands, they were able […]

Mary Cavagnaro

Mary C. Cavagnaro was born Aug, 11, 1934 in Phoenix, Ariz. and passed away Oct. 27, 2020. She was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by a son Joe Mari; daughter, Kathy Miller; and son Francis Cavagnaro Jr. She is survived by husband Francis Cavagnaro Sr., son Kenny Mari, grandchildren Tyler (Kailah) Cavagnaro, Mike (Debben) […]

Finally, some good news about Creek Fire



Some good news emerged in the Creek Fire fight: containment has reached 70 percent, while the burned acreage figure was reduced to 377,693 acres as of Tuesday morning — a reduction of nearly 2,500 acres attributed to updated mapping, according to U.S. Forest Service officials. Some 878 personnel remained on the job. The majority of active fire behavior remains in […]

Yosemite reverts back to fire restriction order

Yosemite National Park is experiencing high fire danger, along with continued hot and dry weather patterns. However, due to a reduction of overall fire danger and prevalence of active fires in the region, the superintendent of Yosemite National Park will be reverting to Stage 1 fire restrictions until further notice is given. This is the new order: • No building, […]

Board moves money from general fund to CARES fund



Although the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a lot of uncertainty as to next steps of getting things back to “normal,” federal funding is easing some of the concern as Mariposa County officials are focusing on breaking down the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act expenditures. In actuality, $1,295,326 is the correct amount of expenditures of the Coronavirus Relief […]

Board votes to begin qualification search for Airport Runway Maintenance Project



A small crack in the road won’t do much damage to a car while driving along the highway. However, cracks and blacktop breakage can cause potential safety hazards for aircrafts trying to land. This happens to be the case at the Mariposa-Yosemite Airport so the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted at last week’s meeting to get started on […]

Airport aids in efforts to fight fires in region



Assisting both CAL FIRE and the U.S. Forest Service in battling wildfires in California like the Creek fire, the Mariposa-Yosemite Airport is proving to be essential to the efforts. The Creek Fire — started on Sept. 4 due to an unknown cause — has burned well over 375,000 acres of land in the Sierra National Forest and surrounding counties. According […]

The new (ab)normal

PRACTICING PUBLIC HEALTH


Those who have opened the closet door and had stacked-to-ceiling T. P. cascade over them know the feeling we’re about to discuss. As do those with two dozen bottles of bleach stashed away and enough 100-packs of masks to start their own private surgery center. ‘When will we get back to normal?’ Just as the disease of Covid is slowly […]

A girl who wouldn’t dance, thankfully

FREE KELLIE’S CORNER

We met the old fashioned way, in a bar, and last week Dave and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. It was New Year’s Eve in 1993 in Avalon, on Catalina Island, when we first met. My best friend was a singer in the band that night, and Dave — the man who would be my husband — asked someone […]

Space dust is answer to all our problems

BETWEEN THE LINES

I am writing this column in the hope you will be reading it. What, you say, does that mean? Well, this column was written before Halloween, which had a full moon to boot; before the time changed meaning we all have to trudge home in the dark; and, maybe most importantly, before the presidential election. Any of those things could […]