Madera South, Madera win first competition after 11 month wait
In the first athletics competition in 11 months, the Madera and Madera South cross country teams came away with victories at the Mad-Town Showdown at Madera South. The Madera Coyote girls team scored 18 points to easily defeat Madera South. The Stallions boys teams came away with a sweep of the first seven placings to […]
Liberty sweeps first cross country meet
In its first-ever cross country meet on its campus, the Liberty Hawks boys and girls cross country teams took home field advantage to sweep races against Minarets-O’7Neals, Lindsay and Washington Union-Easton high schools. The Liberty boys team had the closest battle, narrowly beating its neighbor Minarets by two place points. Carlos Briseno was the deciding […]
Letter: ‘Woke:’ Justice for all?
I once aspired to becoming a lawyer. Not that I actually knew any attorneys. Rather, my mind was filled with images of an Atticus Finch, braving community backlash while resolutely pursuing justice for Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird, a young John Adams, placing both career and family at risk in representing the eight […]
Being With The People — A Diary by Kirk Edwards: Leningrad 1989 — Wednesday, June 21
In 1989, Kirk Edwards, a 1973 MHS graduate, had an experience unique to Madera natives. He traveled as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Band to the Soviet Union — the first U.S. Band to do so. Throughout his stay, he kept a diary, an abridged copy of which is here published, in serial […]
No ‘colored’ kids in pool
Madera’s city owned and operated swimming pool was called “The Plunge” for years, and in the 1940s, it was the scene of considerable strife between the races — actually, it was between two races, black and white. By 1947, folks were beginning to resist Jim Crow in Madera, and the struggle seemed to center at […]