Yosemite Radio Updates
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The Legend of Tissayack, the Woman’s Face in the Rock Mountain Called Half Dome in Yosemite
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Even before John Muir discovered Yosemite and wrote about the faces in the rock mountains, even before the native Miwoks inhabited the land, the Mono Lake Paiute people had their stories and legends about the place. These days you might hear different…
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Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center Artist Interview Series One: Tom Rogers
By Glynn Wilson – News Director – Yosemite Radio, in partnership with the Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center in Coulterville, California, is conducting a series of interviews with local artists showing their work in the new center. We start with Tom Rogers, who produces Rustic Metal Artworks from common everyday metal items given up by…
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USDA’s Hidden Plan to Dismantle the Forest Service Exposed in Sweeping Federal Lawsuit
Guest Column – By Will Pattiz – More Than Just Parks Officials with the Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture swore the plan was not to gut the U.S. Forest Service. Then a federal court pried loose the plan the department spent a year hiding, and it proves agency officials lied. A federal judge in San…
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Clean Energy Cancellations Cost U.S. 470,000 Jobs, Hundreds of Billions in GDP
By Alex Frank and Michael Timberlake – WASHINGTON, D.C. â One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law ârolling back tax credits and programs related to clean energy manufacturing and renewable electricity â a new economic analysis finds that large-scale clean energy projects abandoned since the beginning of 2025 will cost…
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Crushing Crowds in National Parks Concern Staff Who Serve the Public and Preserve Places Like Yosemite
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As an experienced national park visitor, camper and volunteer, there is no way I would try to visit a big name national park like Yosemite on a big national holiday like Independence Day, even living 31 miles down the mountain from the…
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America 250: Happy Fourth of July in Coulterville Park
Staff Report – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The Coulterville VFW Auxiliary is sponsoring a special Fourth of July Independence Day celebration on America’s 250th Birthday in the community park on Saturday, July 4 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be hotdogs and hamburgers with a bag of chips and a drink for only $3…
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Friday Night Live Music from the Johnny Haigh Saloon
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Dr. Brenda Sweeney of Greeley Hill, soon to also be a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, made a surprise appearance at the Old Johnny Haigh Saloon on Main Street Friday night. She brought a few friends and her guitar and joined Chugwater…
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A Long History: Naming Cars, Vans, Pets, Boats and Hurricanes
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – People have been naming vehicles, animals and storms for a very long time. Dating back at least 15,000 years to the Mesolithic Age, perhaps, when the oldest known boat on the planet was named the “Pesse Canoe” after it was discovered in…
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David Clayton-Thomas, Lead Singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, Dies at 84
Staff Report – David Clayton-Thomas, a homeless Toronto runaway who learned guitar in prison and went on to become the lead singer of the gritty, blues-inspired band Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose songs like âSpinning Wheelâ and covers like âYouâve Made Me So Very Happyâ neared the top of the Billboard charts, died on Wednesday…
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Trump Administration to Close San Francisco National Archives Office
Researchers Are Worried Staff Report – The Trump administration plans to close the National Archives office in San Francisco, along with another in Chicago, according to reporting from KQED. An email to staff on Wednesday obtained by the station said the move would begin âwithin the next few months.â The National Archives at San Francisco,…
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National Park Service Adds Real Time Traffic Feature to Yosemite Website
If you are planning to visit Yosemite National Park this summer, and are searching for a way to check wait times at specific entrance stations, the National Park Service now has a way to check that on its website. The new feature includes real-time wait information for the Arch Rock Entrance (Highway 140), Big Oak…
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Northern Mariposa County History Center Dedicates New Storage Building
SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE! Staff Report – The Northern Mariposa County History Center dedicated its new, modern, handicap accessible storage building on Saturday, June 13, just before the annual Member Meeting. The construction of the building became a priority of the museum back in 2019 when the donation of a large collection of local antiquities more…