Left in cold and dark
Crash takes out apartment building’s power The tenants of 12 apartments in the 300 block of South I Street are still looking for places to live after a car crashed into the wall of their building on I Street, took out all the PG&E electric meters and damaged a transformer, according to the Madera Police […]
Supervisors may boost their pay
Madera County supervisors have set a hearing for Tuesday to consider and vote on raising their salaries by 3 percent — a raise of roughly $2,500 a year each. The board’s last increase in pay took effect July 1, 2017. The proposed hike is similar in scale to a 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment that those […]
Tioga and Glacier Point roads close for season
The Tioga and Glacier Point Roads in Yosemite National Park are closed for the winter season. There have been several storm systems that have moved through the park over the past two weeks. The Tioga Road is a seasonal road that closes each season, based on weather and road conditions. The road is closed from […]
Monorail may have been better
I was driving one of my stepsons from Madera to Fresno Yosemite International Airport the other day, and he was ogling the superstructure that has been built alongside State Route 99 for the California High-Speed Rail System, especially the bridge that crosses the San Joaquin River. “There went the city,” I said. “It will be […]
National Assessment of Climate Change: Part I
“The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid.” — Fourth National Climate Assessment: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, Nov. 23, 2018 The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) was released by the government last week, specifically at 2 p.m. EST on Black Friday. It […]
‘Deck the halls with boughs of holly…’
Christmas time is here. Write it Xmas and there are people who will insist you are taking Christ out of Christmas. Other people will be so politically correct that nothing short of happy holidays will suffice. Like saying Christmas will offend the non-Christians. This always strikes me as nonsense and noise to distract people from […]
Coyotes hustle and shoot to win
The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team opened its home schedule with an energetic 74-59 victory over the Roosevelt-Fresno Rough Riders in Joe Flores Gym. The Coyotes forced 32 turnovers from the Rough Riders, including 17 steals, which led to 51 percent shooting (27-of-53) from the field, including hitting 11-of-26 (42 percent) from 3-point range. “These […]
Stallions capitalize on Tribe mistake
Madera South improved to 2-0 to open the 2018 season with a last-minute 2-1 win over the Tulare Union Tribe in a non-conference match at Memorial Stadium. In only two games so far this season, the Stallions boys soccer team has scored seven goals and conceded just one. Their hot start to the season is […]
Two-first half goals enough for Coyotes
After shaking off a scheduling conflict the week prior, the Madera Coyotes girls soccer team controlled the first half in route to a 2-1 victory over the El Capitan-Merced Gauchos in a non-conference match at Memorial Stadium. “It was up and down. I thought we played well in the middle of the first half,” Madera […]
’Tis the season
As we enter what is known to Christians as the Advent season, we await Christmas Day, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. This season was intended to be a season of anticipation for that celebrated day in which the long-expected Messiah came to live among us on earth. The Christmas season has become […]