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July 29, 2026 • For The Madera Tribune

Madera volunteers turn community pride into action

On a Saturday morning in July, nearly 30 people traded sleeping in for trash bags and gloves. By the time they finished, they’d hauled away...

July 29, 2026 • For The Madera Tribune

Madera Police officers acting proactively

Madera Police Department weekend day shift officers have been hard at work throughout the city. Officer Pineda conducted a traffic stop, and observed the driver...

July 29, 2026 • For The Madera Tribune

Traffic stop yields ghost guns

Madera PD Traffic Officer Alvaro Sanchez conducted a vehicle stop near the 400 block of W. Yosemite Street. The Thursday stop resulted in the arrest...

July 29, 2026 • Tyler Takeda

Torres XC and track star headed to Southern California

Hunter Hannah was one of the leaders of the Matilda Torres Toros cross country and track teams, and will now head to UC Riverside to...

July 29, 2026 • For The Madera Tribune

Letters: Welcome back, Jim Crow

Our republic was born on July 4, 1776. But in the opinion of Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Jon Meacham, our democracy was born on Aug....

July 29, 2026 • Jim Glynn

Book Talk: Lisa Scottoline, ‘Final Appeal’

I’m always surprised when I discover an older work by one of my favorite authors. I believed that I’d read all of Lisa Scottoline’s stand-alone...

July 29, 2026 • Cathie Campbell

Bread as a dessert

The reason I am writing about bread pudding for this column is kind of a funny story. I have been going through many of my...

July 29, 2026 • Bill Coate

Tragedy struck Madera teenagers on the tracks

It was the middle of August, and in a few days school would begin again for Burt Hambleton and Jimmie Thurman. The summer of 1902...