Raymond News

The annual Raymond Volunteer Fire Department Spaghetti Benefit Dinner and Halloween Dance will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Raymond General Store.

Seven of the 23 Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indian Community Grants, totaling $202,240, will be presented to organizations in Eastern Madera County.

Madera County will have a busy Saturday of various events for all ages. Auto racing Saturday night's events at the Madera Speedway will feature numerous races of various classes, trick-or-treating for kids, and a fireworks display... Tarantula Fest Coarsegold is hosting the 12th Annual Coarsegold Tarantula Festival on Saturday as well.

Former County Supervisor Harry Baker surrenders to Fresno police Oakhurst businessman and former Madera County Supervisor Harry Baker, 81, has turned himself over to the Fresno Police Department to face charges of child molestation.

The Madera County Board of Supervisors voted last week to close the Ahwahnee and Raymond Cal Fire Stations at the end of the current fire season, probably in December.

A wind-driven grass fire quickly burned at least 135 acres of pasture adjacent to Road 600, just south of the town of Raymond.

Agents with Madera County Narcotic Enforcement Team pulled the plants obscured by rows of corn, between eight and 20 feet tall, in a field off of Olympia and Avenue 21.

Madera County Sheriff's spokesperson Erica Stuart says six young boys, ages 11 to 17, found living inside a home where more than 10,000 pot plants were discovered growing inside a cornfield, have been turned over to Child Protective Services.

Madera County Sheriff's spokesperson Erica Stuart says six young boys, ages 11 to 17, found living inside a home where more than 10,000 pot plants were discovered growing inside a cornfield, have been turned over to Child Protective Services.

Visalia, CA, June 4, 2009 When surveying the current community positions held by local leaders in Tulare County there is an apparent need to diversify and increase representation from the Latino population.

The Tulare Kings Hispanic Chamber of Commerce isn't just expanding its quarters, it's also expanding its expectations, said Raymond Macareno, the organization's executive director since November 2008.

Question: Was the person who set the string of commercial fires in downtown Fresno in 1953 ever caught? -- Raymond Santillan, Selma Answer: Investigators had many theories and questioned more than 100 witnesses and suspects -- focusing on one young man for four years -- but the person who set 13 fires in downtown Fresno on Friday, July 10, 1953, ...

The Fresno County Coroner's Office reported Tuesday that a Madera County accident victim rushed to a Fresno hospital has died.

A 64-year-old Raymond man died Saturday night in a two-vehicle crash southwest of Coarsegold in Madera County, the California Highway Patrol reported.

"It's going to be great." Don DeBernardi of Oakhurst Sunrise Rotary was talking about Ahwahnee Hills Park, which is ever closer to opening.

Just as sure as winter follows summer, rain followed the Madera Method Wagon Train as it completed its 2009 season of cross country treks Sunday.

The Heartland Bike Club will host a Mother's Day Ride at 1 p.m. May 10 from Clancey's Stone Lion Pub, 7214 Custer Road, Custer.