Captain Mace: The heavyweight in the mutiny
At 73 years of age and weighing 350 pounds, Captain Russel Perry Mace was rarely seen on the streets of Madera during those propitious days in the early 1890s. He spent most of his time in the Yosemite Hotel, which he had built in 1877. This, however, didn’t isolate him from the political winds of […]
The approaching storm
We haven’t been hearing much lately about the High-speed rail scheme that gives us confidence that the project will ever be finished, or if it ever is finished that we will be able to pay for it. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to have a high-speed train at our disposal to run us […]
Reader encourages candidate vote
The Hon. Charles A. Wieland stated in his Jan. 13 letter to the editor that the next attorney who becomes our next judge will most likely be elected in the June 2018 primary. I believe that attorney should be Carol Moses. As Judge Wieland said she is hard-working, fair, knowledgeable, ethical and well prepared to […]