Yosemite High wins Mock Trial
Yosemite High School won the 2023 Honorable Edward P. Moffat Madera County Mock Trial held in February. Yosemite High’s defense and Madera South’s prosecution teams competed in the championship round held on February 16. Yosemite won the competition and will attend the State Mock Trial on behalf of Madera County on March 17-19. Matilda Torres […]
Pershing helps Planada victims
After the recent flooding in January, Pershing Elementary School teacher Amy Kuhn wanted to do something to help out victims in Planada, near Merced, especially the children. Kuhn, who has helped lead Pershing’s annual canned food drive, asked staff and families to donate gently used books and school supplies to help Planada Elementary School students. […]
Madera South grad sworn into CHP
WEST SACRAMENTO — Fernando M. Gonzalez has successfully completed cadet training at the California Highway Patrol Academy and has been assigned to duty at the CHP’s Santa Cruz Area office. Officer Gonzalez graduated from Madera South High School in 2019. He earned an Associates of Arts Degree in criminal justice from Madera Community College. Prior […]
Stallions win first title since 1963
FRESNO — The Madera South Stallions boys basketball team accomplished something no other Madera Unified School District team has done for 60 years — win a Central Section championship. In capturing Madera South’s first boys basketball title, the 13th seeded Stallions overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat the seventh-seeded McFarland Cougars 71-64 Saturday for the […]
Mistakes hurt Toros in championship game
FRESNO — The Matilda Torres Toros finally ran into a team that can take advantage of their mistakes and the Lindsay Cardinals made the Toros pay for a 53-37 victory in the Div. VI Championship game at Selland Arena. The second-seeded Toros turned the ball over 28 times and shot just 4-of-14 from the free […]
Stallions offense as cold as weather
After waiting through the rain, the Madera Stallions baseball team’s offense couldn’t defrost in a 3-1 loss to the San Joaquin Memorial-Fresno Panthers. The Stallions only banged out three hits and left 10 runners on base in Thursday’s loss at Eddie Chapa Field. The offense wasted a quality performance on the mound by Jorge Gutierrez. […]
Opinion: Second Amendment may be a target
First published in The Madera Tribune, on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. A lot of people are interested in gun control these days, as well they might be, given the demonstrations of certain guns’ murderous efficiency to which we have been subjected in the past few weeks. Calls for gun control, followed by the defensive postures […]
Book Talk: Cavanagh, ‘The Devil’s Advocate’
While they await the decision of Governor Patchett, District Attorney Randal Korn waits with Darius Robinson, who is to be executed in the electric chair. Korn says, “I’m innocent, and they all know it.” Patchett finally states that he’ll leave the decision up to the D.A. Korn enjoys watching Darius during the nine minutes it […]
Roll out the crepes
About a week ago, I was cleaning out a small closet, searching for some notebooks pertaining to a language class I took years ago. I did find them, but was just as thrilled to discover a whole bunch of things I had forgotten about. One of those things was a cookbook about crepes, Crepe Cookery, […]
‘Blown-away’
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