Battle to the top to be featured at Oakhurst cinema
The award-winning documentary ‘The Dawn Wall’ capturing American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s climb up the 3,000 foot rock face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park will be playing in The Met Cinema in Oakhurst from November 9-15, with the first showing Friday. The Dawn Wall Trailer can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edfw9ip9sCQ&feature=youtu.be. […]
Madtown Robotics readies for throwdown
The Madtown Robotics team, fresh off a 49-4 competition record, will host the ninth annual Madtown Throwdown this weekend in Joe Flores Gym at Madera High School. The Madtown Robotics team participated in five events this season and ended ranked No. 4 out of 4,000 teams internationally. Madtown Robotics adviser Ranjit Chahal said his team […]
Welcome to Nancy’s Corner
Now that the election is over, let’s settle down and be civil toward one another. It is a right and a privilege to vote for whatever candidate you wish, and in this country we have the right to express our opinions. It is important for us to remember to speak our minds without hatred in […]
Some lessons from World War I
One of the things about World War I is how horrible it was for those who fought it, from beginning to end. The soldiers were ill-trained and ill-equipped, and the officers didn’t know what they were doing. Men lived in trenches. They carried 75-pound packs. A lot of them froze to death. There was little […]
Perpetual politics: Advent of permanent campaign
Now that the midterm elections are over, we have the opportunity to clean out our mailboxes and bathe them with bleach to remove the stench of all of the negative advertising that we’ve received against the candidate that we favored or the one that we wanted to see defeated. In either case, most people who […]
Blessings on our veterans; we owe them a lot
Tuesday’s election in Madera County had an unprecedented turnout of voters. I arrived at the Madera County Clerk’s office at around 7 p.m. Cars lined the lane designated for access to the ballot drop-box. The cars, as they had been doing all day, I’m told, just kept coming. The lines to register to vote and […]
Will Feinstein serve out her new term?
Things were slightly bittersweet at Dianne Feinstein’s Election Night celebration in San Francisco, which marked her easy reelection to a fifth full term in the U.S. Senate, where she has been arguably the most influential Democratic member for the last few years. Her power was most publicly obvious this fall during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme […]