Madera Library competes in robotics
Not long after Madera High School won the first ever robotics championship in Houston last April, Ignacio Negrete thought to himself that he should work on forming one. Negrete, who works as a desktop technician in the IT department at the Madera County Library, decided he would create one that kids could join and get […]
Opinion: AOC kneecaps the Dems
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked off 2020 by kneecapping her colleagues. The bartender-turned-congresswoman announced in early January that she would not be paying her share of party dues (dues which amount to roughly $250,000) to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The Democrats’ main campaign arm, the DCCC recruits and raises funds for candidates as well as incumbents. […]
Opinion: Freeway toll lanes: The bait-and-switch expands
Diamond lanes for the rich. Lexus lanes. A classic bait-and-switch. Social engineering on a massive scale. Taking the free out of freeways. Republican officials working for then-President George W. Bush in 2008 didn’t apply any of those epithets to their plan to charge tolls and allow solo drivers into carpool lanes on freeways in some […]
Letter: ‘The Bernie Bubble’
Get out of the “Bernie Bubble,” and you’ll see that only “Bernie Bros” believe Sen. Sanders has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning anything(other then maybe New Hampshire.) Jeremy Corbyn, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale — don’t add Bernie Sanders to that list of epic fails! Michael Dukakis, Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. Why […]
Big first half leads Coyotes
The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team got a hot-shooting performance from Alek Trukki and forced 33 turnovers for a 51-34 victory over Madera South. Trukki hit six 3-pointers in the first three quarters to score a game-high 20 points to lead the Coyotes. Madera jumped out to a 30-14 lead and stretched the lead to […]
Coyotes get win over rivals
Keyed by another well-played first half, the Madera Coyotes girls basketball team held off the Madera South Stallions long enough for a 53-48 victory. Cathy Figueroa led the Coyotes with 14 points while going 8-of-17 from the free throw line Friday. Five other players scored six or more points for the Coyotes. Camile Nunez scored […]
Madera South comes from behind to down rivals
The Madera Stallions girls soccer team came back from a 2-0 deficit to win 4-3 against the Madera Coyotes at Memorial Stadium in overtime. The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead in the first minute on a goal by Jazmin Pinon on Friday. Maria Zapata added a second goal in the 13th minute to make it […]
Liberty routs Chowchilla, gets second straight league win
The Liberty Hawks girls soccer team started fast and never looked back in an 8-0 rout against Chowchilla. It was the second straight dominant win for the Hawks, who were coming off a 6-0 win against Washington Union. Before getting consecutive wins, the Hawks had lost two of three in league. “We definitely had a […]
V-Flume artery kept Madera’s heart beating
During the 33-year existence of the flume which gave birth to Madera, more than one billion feet of lumber floated down the big trough from the mountains toward the mill near where Millview School now stands. Built in 1876, by the California Lumber Company, the V-flume followed along mountainsides, through steep canyons, and often had […]