YLP Community News

The tiny, gray-brown oak titmouse is as plain and drab as a bird can be.

YLOA General Manager Jonathan Penrose presents a five-year plan to address deferred maintenance of facilities and pay for repaving our roads.

YLOA members all have been sent an envelope labeled “Urgent-Please Return.”

General Manager Jonathan Penrose will present a Town Hall this coming Tuesday, Feb. 26, looking at our financial reserves.

If you see a fellow on one of YLP’s trails carrying a camera and looking up into the trees, there’s a good chance it’s Robert Groos.

After years of ground preparation, a long-planned business venture is about to begin at the corner of US-41 and Yosemite Springs Parkway.

Bill Green takes a moment Monday to show one of the first new road signs he and his YLOA Roads crew have started to erect in YLP.

With increasing frequency our aging water system will fail, causing outages. Come along and see what it takes to fix a main line leak in YLP.

It’s that time again!  If you have lost keys in 2018, please contact Security to see if we have them. 

An effort is under way to help a woman who lost her YLP home in a fire on Dec. 13.

From new business to new housing, business is booming in Madera County, ABC30 reports:

The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is currently recruiting for Citizens on Patrol.

Projects move ahead: horse stall roofs, pizza oven, new street signs and more…

Life in the kitchen just got a bit easier for our hard-working Blue Heron chef and his crew, after taking ownership of something called a buffalo chopper….

Check out our gallery of more than 40 photos from the 2018 Ladies of the Lakes Rigatoni Dinner.

Please join us for a YLP Town Hall on Tuesday, October 23rd. It all starts with a family-style Italian buffet!

Six high school girls’ golf teams took over YLP Golf Course on Wednesday for tournament play, spreading out all over the course on a gorgeous September afternoon.

The YLOA board voted to extend General Manager Jonathan Penrose’s contract indefinitely following a six-month review period.

Due to popular demand, we are reopening the pool in the evenings from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Our new golf page is now online, and we’re introducing new YLP Golf Course Manager Ken Souza.

After more than a year, life has returned to the former hardware store building in the YLP Plaza. It’s projected to reopen. . .

We’d love to share any photos you have of scenes and people who lived here in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The best contribution as judged by our panel will get….

Rollout of the new YLP website continues, with the launch of a page providing information on the new YLOA Board of Directors and committees for 2018-19. Check it out!

After 15 years of renting office space, YSPUC had the opportunity to purchase one of the few commercial buildings here in the park…..

What lucky birds, and lucky us! Darrel Dietrich has created another stupendous bird feeder…

At the board meeting Tuesday night I introduced a new financial report that should make it easier for you to see the financial health of both YSPUC and YLOA.

The pool season’s winding down, so get in some swim time and check out our new web page for the swimming pool and tennis courts.

Ducks and geese are a common sight around the YLP Clubhouse, but one captured the hearts of visitors and staff this summer.

Yosemite Valley reopens to the public today at 9 a.m., after being closed since July 25 due to fire suppression activities and heavy smoke. Visitors can access the Valley via Highway 140 from Mariposa or on Big Oak Flat Road from Highway 120. Highway 41 remains closed between Wawona and the Tunnel view.

We’re excited today to launch the new YLP Equestrian Center page. If you have a horse at the center or are thinking of boarding a horse at our popular and active center, this is the place to find out what’s going on.

We have recently been experiencing a number of challenges with our existing phone system. We have been trouble shooting these issues, implementing work arounds and evaluating alternate solutions.

With the recent jump to sustained triple digit weather and no end any time soon, we are asking everyone to please conserve water. While there is not a crisis or current emergency, we are presently consuming more water than we are pumping.

A voting quorum of 25% of YLOA members in good standing was achieved Monday at the continuation session of the Annual Meeting. Four of five candidates were elected to the YLOA Board of Directors: Rebecca Brannon, Michelle Piotrowski, Kathleen Rondeau-Taylor and Ken...

From SierraNewsOnline.com: A 93-year-old artist, author and explorer will hopefully soon recover a portion of her precious belongings thanks to some sharp-eyed residents of Yosemite Lakes Park.

The 2018 YLOA Annual Meeting will resume at 6 p.m. Monday in the clubhouse to again count votes, as the 40 percent required quorum of submitted ballots was not reached today.

From SierraNewsOnline.com: The couple convicted of starting numerous fires in Yosemite Lakes Park and the surrounding 2013 have had some of their convictions reversed on appeal.

The new YLP Welcome Guide is now available! It contains important and useful information for YLP residents, whether or not you are new to our community.

Phil Stultz stands with one of five banners put up this week to remind YLOA members to vote. The YLOA Annual Meeting will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2018, at the Clubhouse.

Ballots can be dropped off and your election questions answered at Monday Night Tacos. See you there!

Please note that the YLOA Clubhouse is an official COOLING STATION with air conditioning and bottled water. Take advantage of it — 8 to 8 every day.

PG&E has teamed up with Synergy Company for a HVAC Maintenance Program through the PG&E Cooling Optimizer Program.

From YLOA General Manager Jonathan Penrose: We are aware that there have been numerous comments posted in social media regarding our decision to expand and adjust pool hours. I’d like to take a moment to address the reasons behind the change.

Fire Station 10 Capt. Brian Donaghy reminds YLP residents that all outside burning is now prohibited, and the 100-foot vegetation clearance limit around homes is being enforced.