Letters: We can give it back to them
Fresno don’t want it on Herndon. I agree. That area is a growing disaster. If anywhere up there, why not off Veterans Boulevard? Madera says, “we’ll take it.” However, that is at Avenue 7 and State Route 99. State Route 99, at the river, narrows to two lanes, and idiots don’t want to merge at […]
Book Talk: A short story and a confusing plot
The Gift Although I discovered Freida McFadden only within the past year, she inched her way onto my list of favorable authors, replacing the James Patterson assembly-line books, supposedly co-authored with writers, most of whom would be strangers on my bookshelves. Ms. McFadden is a physician, specializing in brain damage, and an entertaining writer. Her […]
Madera’s match factory burned
The month of May held a high and a low for the pulse of Madera. A visit by President Roosevelt represented the zenith of community pride, but then came the nadir. Just eleven days after Roosevelt’s departure, Madera‘s Pacific Coast Match Factory went up in flames. At 1:30 in the afternoon of May 29, 1903, […]