Officers hunt down suspect in Oakhurst stabbing case
Madera County Sheriff’s deputies and other officers hunted down a suspect in what is being called an attempted murder Aug. 20, according to information from the sheriff’s department. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kayla Serratto said a call came into the the sheriff’s dispatcher at about 10:30 a.m., telling of an assault in the area of River Park […]
Barsotti reinvests in home community
Chicago Title county manager Mark Barsotti is reinvesting in the community that has supported him throughout his life. “When times got bad in 2007 and everything just crashed, we’ve stuck it out through thick and thin,” he said. “We had competitors who were here and left to where they came from. The market comes around […]
Pair who met at Fair will wed there
Madera residents Lupe Martinez Jr. and Dezarea Pack had their first “date” at the 2011 Madera Fair, dancing the night away to Billy Currington. After seven years together, they will exchange vows at the 2018 Madera Fair Get Hitched wedding, Saturday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m. On Feb. 14, Madera District Fair kicked off a […]
New prison warden is appointed
Janel Espinoza, from Visalia, was recently appointed Warden at the Central California Women’s Facility, in Chowchilla, where she has been acting warden since July 2017. She served as the Chief Deputy Warden of Central California Women’s Facility, from 2016 to 2017. She previously served as an Associate Warden of the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at […]
Goodbye, Daylight Saving Time — maybe
In November, depending on the outcome of the vote on Proposition 7, Californians may or may not change the way we calculate the time of day. That’s as close as we come to a certainty these days. But, you have to read the bill that was submitted by Assembly Member Kansen Chu (D, Milpitas) and […]
Enhanced beauty through ink
The television newscasts are often very disturbing. There are miscreants out stealing the belongings of others, many times violently. So much of it can be attributed to drug use. Coping with reality sober is more than some people can manage. Men and women both are vulnerable to the allure of living chemically enhanced lifestyles. About […]
Coyotes overcome opening-night jitters for comeback victory
After losing the first set to the Atwater Falcons, the Madera Coyotes girls volleyball team rallied for three straight set victories to win the match in its home opener in Joe Flores Gym. “I think we started off the game super shaky and I think being home for the first time this season was a […]
Stallions surge to win opener
Despite coming back to take a late lead but losing the first set of its home-opener against Minarets, the Madera South Stallions girls volleyball team battled back to win the next three sets rather easily for a match victory. A day after losing a three-set match to Div. I Clovis North, the Stallions defeated Minarets […]
Secession put pressure on taxpayers
All of Madera County was buzzing in 1893! Had we separated from Fresno County only to be eaten alive by our own newly created bureaucratic monster? Some thought so. Creating the new county was hard work, and there were obviously delicate issues with which Madera County’s first Board of Supervisors had to deal — like […]