Stallions, Hawks host football playoff games
When the dust finally settled on the football regular season, the Madera Coyotes defeated the Madera South Stallions to win the Stadium Road Showdown and the Liberty Hawks defeated the Chowchilla Tribe to finish their season. When the Central Section football playoffs were announced on Saturday, the Hawks and Stallions were awarded home games Friday […]
Madera South wins second straight race
Traveling through the early morning fog to Kingsburg proved fruitful for the Madera South Stallions cross country team to run at the John Seaman Invitational. The varsity boys team edged out Clovis North on Saturday for their second race title in as many weeks. Dylan Devine led the Stallions with a second place overall finish […]
Opinion: Nursing homes face a new life-or-death crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is over at California’s hundreds of nursing homes. Or is it? Like nursing homes around the nation, this state’s skilled nursing facilities and the somewhat similar assisted living homes were the state’s most tragic dying grounds during the height of the pandemic. They accounted for almost 48 percent of COVID deaths here […]
Book Talk: The Patterson writing machine
I think the first James Patterson book that I read was “Along Came a Spider,” the only book that he published in 1993. Then, I read “Kiss the Girls,” the only book he published in 1995. After just those two books, I decided that he was my favorite author. His books sold like ice cream […]
Family favorites we can share
Every family seems to have favorite recipes that have been handed down over generations, whether written, clipped from a magazine or just memorized. Sometimes favorite recipes are not even family heirlooms or traditions, but are newly discovered. It is fun to share, even though I do know many great cooks who choose to guard their […]
Remembering Judge Crocker
The year was 1958, and President Dwight David Eisenhower was looking for a few good judges. Since one of the federal vacancies he was attempting to fill was in California’s San Joaquin Valley, he wound up appointing Madera County Superior Court Judge, M.D. Crocker. It was an excellent choice, but one that might never have […]