Chamber to honor Sr. Farmer
After a two year wait, the Madera Chamber of Commerce will host H. Clay Daulton for his Senior Farmer selection. Daulton is announced the 2022 Senior Farmer of the Year after he was initially announced the 2020 Sr. Farmer of the Year. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chamber of Commerce wasn’t able to give […]
Fuller School holds annual Patriot Day assembly in Chowchilla
Chowchilla’s Fuller School held its annual Patriots Day Assembly on Friday to honor first responders with the highlight of a Black Hawk military helicopter making an landing in the school’s yard. The TK, first and second grade classes hosts the event every year to ensure that the students do not forget or take for granted […]
Veterans’ Voices: Pasquel Reyes
Veterans’ Voices is directed toward veterans and their families who have given so much to ensure our freedom in this country. This is an area where you may share your experiences, or read of other veterans’ experiences. We thank you for your service, and hope that you know how much you are loved and appreciated. […]
Coyotes hold on for Showdown win
It was the tale of two halves in the 15th annual Stadium Road Showdown and it ended with the Madera Coyotes holding off the Madera South Stallions at the one-yard line to secure the victory. The Coyotes came back from a 30-7 deficit midway through the third quarter to score 27 unanswered points for a […]
Coyotes make run for Silver Division title at classic
Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Aliyah Garcia reaches up for one of her 12 kills in a two-set win over Mendota in the Silver Division quarterfinals at Saturday’s Madera Classic. The Madera Coyotes volleyball team seems to have found something heading into the County/Metro Athletic Conference season after playing in the Madera Classic on Friday […]
Hawks win league game at halftime
OAKHURST — The Yosemite Badgers ran onto the field to open Friday’s Northwest Sierra League game against the Liberty Hawks with just 13 players. Three plays into the game, the Badgers lost a player to injury. The officials instituted a running clock with about seven minutes left in the first half and when halftime sounded, […]
Stallions beat Hornets in first-ever meeting
The Madera South Stallions girls volleyball team improved to 2-0 in its return to the North Yosemite League with a first-ever victory over new school, Sanger West. The Stallions outscored the Hornets 75-47 and trailed for just three points in Thursday’s match. Madera South recorded 33 kills and 11 aces in the win. They had […]
Book Talk: Steve Cavanagh, ‘The Defense’
Wow! If you could squish a courtroom drama written by John Grisham or Scott Turow and a thriller by David Baldacci or Sandra Brown together, you get Steve Cavanagh’s “The Defense” (2015, 381 pages in paperback). “The Defense” is Cavanagh’s debut novel, and it’s a blockbuster. Publishers Weekly’s starred review states, “Everything a reader could […]
Opinion: Bet on passage for big time sports gambling
If you’re a gambling man or woman (and two of this fall’s seven California ballot propositions are about gaming), don’t bet the house against either November’s Prop. 26 or Prop. 27. Both these competing initiatives aim to legalize what once was criminal in this state. Legalizing onetime vices seems to have become a ballot-box favorite. […]
Madera’s first physician
The doctor came to Madera in April 1877, when it was just six months old. The young, upstart village then consisted of 25 buildings, most of them dwellings. It could hardly compare with the mining community of Buchanan, from whence C.E. Brown came, but it had promise. That’s why he decided to remain and become […]