City financial crisis looming
Hoping to get ahead of a looming financial crisis, the Madera City Council soon will be making some difficult choices — between funding city services and maintaining infrastructure. Reductions in city staff and city services are probably unavoidable in the near future. Longtime city administrator David Tooley said the city had just been informed that […]
Couple faces prison after conviction for cruelty to horses
A county Superior Court jury has convicted Jennifer Nicole Budre and Clarence Edward Spear Jr. of 12 counts of animal cruelty, according to authorities. Sentencing of the pair by judge Joseph Soldani has been set for Nov. 17. Each faces up to 10 years and four months in jail, according to Madera County District Attorney […]
Madera High celebrates homecoming
A week of Homecoming activities at Madera High School was set to finish Friday with a 12:45 p.m. parade and a 7:30 p.m. football game at Memorial Stadium, featuring the crowning of royalty at halftime. This year’s homecoming theme, “Coyotes got game,” highlighted classic board games such as Monopoly, Sorry, Candyland, and Chutes and Ladders. […]
Madera County OKs list of road projects
The Madera County Board of Supervisors amended a 2017-2018 road fund budget during its regular meeting this week to add a list of proposed upgrade projects, including grader caps and micro seals, for local roadways. To qualify for state funding, this fiscal year’s project list must be submitted to the California Transportation Commission by Monday. […]
Construction on Tesoro Viejo starts
More than 300 business and community leaders celebrated the official groundbreaking of Tesoro Viejo last week, marking the start of construction of the newest master-planned community just off Highway 41 in the heart of Madera’s planned growth area in southeastern Madera County. “We acquired this special piece of land in 2004, and have worked extremely […]
Editor’s Corner: Bay Area fires sending us a share of the smoke
On Wednesday and Thursday, if you happened to go outside, you probably noticed the smoke-filled air, and you may have thought the smoke was coming from a forest fire in our foothills, or in Yosemite National Park. You would have been wrong. The smoke was coming from the Bay area, where wildfires have been destroying […]
Friday the 13th just another day
Friday the 13th is always a favorite day of that given month. It is like Ouija boards, I think I love them so much because they make other people uncomfortable. Try not to indulge your sense of triskaidekaphobia too heavily. The number 13, even when it falls on a Friday, is just another day or […]
Coyotes win subdued match
The Madera Coyotes girls volleyball team headed into Tuesday’s rivalry match with the Madera South Stallions as the heavy favorites and lived up to expectations with a three-set victory to close out an undefeated first half of the County/Metro Athletic Conference season. “This is the last match of the first round of CMAC,” Madera head […]
Bad air forces games to be rescheduled
Fans planning on attending any of the Madera South and Madera water polo matches were met with empty pools. The San Joaquin Air Polution Control district issued an air quality alert on Wednesday due to smoke impacts from the wildfires in Northern California. The alert is in affect until Saturday afternoon. According to CalFire, a […]