City Council hears of budget challenges facing Madera
Interim City Administrator Steve Frazier challenged the City Council on Tuesday during a discussion on the city’s annual budget: “We need to have bold vision by the council to move the city forward,” Frazier said. He was talking about how to get the city past an upcoming budget deficit. City Finance Director Tim Przybyla had […]
Madera County law enforcement agencies to participate in Torch Run for Special Olympics
Law enforcement agencies throughout Madera County will participate in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics on Tuesday, June 12. The runners hope to raise awareness and funds for the Special Olympics movement. This year’s opening ceremonies will begin at 7 a.m. at Courthouse Park in Madera. The route will be completed by […]
Frazier is right — City Council does need vision for the future
Interim City Administrator Steve Frazier, a former Madera police chief who took over the city’s top job after former City Administer David Tooley resigned and then retired in December, put a challenge before the City Council during a Tuesday budget discussion which may have taken council members by surprise. “We need to have bold vision […]
Graduations and elections a memory
The sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” have faded with the breeze. Madera Unified School District has staged all its middle school promotions and high school graduations. I have always considered these rights of passage as mind-numbing. About the last two months of my senior year at Madera High School, I realized that my classmates, some […]
Tragedy tugged at nation’s heartstrings
The driver was drunk as he traveled north in the southbound lanes of Highway 99. When he reached Ashlan Avenue in Fresno, the inevitable happened; he struck several cars in the oncoming traffic, one of them head-on. The drunk driver was not seriously injured, but the last car to slam into the grinding, wrong-way crash […]