Guilds of Valley Children’s announce $5M endowment
The Guilds of Valley Children’s Healthcare has announced a $5 million endowment dedicated to transforming the health and wellbeing of the Valley’s children through the establishment of the Guilds Center for Community Health. The Center will be the first of its kind in the Central Valley to link clinical care, community partners and the healthcare […]
Madera Police Log: Nov. 5-7
The Madera Police Department reported the following incidents. Nov. 5 8:28 a.m. — Animal complaint in the 1200 block of Davis Street. 11:03 a.m. — Grand theft in the 1200 block of East Almond Avenue. 11:04 a.m. — Code enforcement inspection in the 200 block of South Gateway Drive. 11:23 a.m. — Parking citation issued […]
Opinion: Dem politicos ignore California
Something’s wrong here: California will send exponentially more delegates to the national Democratic Party’s nominating convention this summer in Milwaukee than all three of the first caucus and primary election states, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Plus, Californians will begin receiving their ballots for their first-ever overwhelmingly mail-in statewide election on Feb. 4, just […]
Second half surge ends Stallions
OAKHURST — The Yosemite-Oakhurst Badgers football team scored touchdowns on its first two possessions of the second half and pitched a second half shutout for a 35-21 playoff victory over the Madera South Stallions. The 10th-seeded Stallions scored touchdowns on their first three possession of the game, but couldn’t get anything going the rest of […]
Coyote girls repeat, Stallion boys dethroned in CMAC
FRESNO — Last season, while the rest of the County/Metro Athletic Conference closed in on the Madera South boys team, the Sanger Apaches caught up and took down the reigning champs while Madera’s Unique Ford helped her Coyotes to a second straight league championship. For the first time since entering the CMAC, the Madera South […]
Looking back at Lincoln School
Cash on the barrelhead, that’s what was expected, so the kids had their money in hand. It was Wednesday, and that meant that it was Bank Day at Lincoln School in 1953. This writer had never heard of Bank Day until Carles Beckett, long time educator, administrator, and mentor to MUSD, loaned him a huge […]
Pie, pie and more pie, please
I love most types of desserts, but I would have to say that pies are my favorites. I love lemon meringue, pecan, blackberry, apricot and shoofly pie the best. But I would never refuse any other type. I take that back, as one time I had a piece of pie that was made with shredded […]