Opinion: Parents, church and events
I saw a very unusual thing on my way to work last Thursday: A father, in a front yard on Granada Drive, was drying the hair of his teenaged daughter — with a leaf blower. She was laughing, but the air from the leaf blower was practically blowing her over sideways. She had a big […]
Opinion: Solution to state’s housing crunch
So SB 50 is dead, most likely at least for the rest of this election year. How does California now solve its housing problems without that most ambitious of proposed tactics for doing the job? Maybe it’s time for Gov. Gavin Newsom and the labor unions who strongly back him and his policies to revert […]
Letter: A good experience at the DMV
It still pays to be a senior. I went to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles department) the other day — actually it took two times — to get my REAL ID, and actually had a very pleasant experience. I sailed down Yosemite Avenue on an early Wednesday morning and then remembered as I was […]
Stallions’ Munoz wins individual title
In the final match of the Central Section Div. II Championship round, Madera South’s Joseph Munoz sent the hometown fans home happy with a pinfall at 147 pounds for an individual championship. Munoz, wrestling at home in Madera South’s gym, pinned top-seeded Anthony Estrada of Monache-Porterville, with a minute left in the second round grab […]
Bullard too much for Stallions on Senior Night
The Bullard-Fresno Knights worked hard early to spoil the Madera South boys basketball team’s Senior Night en route to an 82-47 victory to close out the regular season. The Knights outscored the Stallions 23-3 in the first quarter and 25-9 in the third quarter to cruise to the victory Thursday evening. “My whole thing was […]
Edison pulls away from Coyotes on Senior Night
The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team struggled to contain the high-flyers from Edison-Fresno in the last game of the regular season. The Tigers started fast and closed the deal in the final minutes, winning 66-54 to spoil senior night at Joe Flores Gym on Thursday. Edison jumped out to a 9-1 lead after a 3-pointer […]
Liberty caps week with Div IV title
Earlier last week, the Liberty Hawks wrestling program was informed that it earned the Central Section’s academic championship for wrestling. The Hawks ended the week in Visalia with the Central Section Div. IV Championship. “I was confident we would be in the top three and would have to fight to win the championship and that’s […]
Coyotes flat in loss to Pioneers
The Madera Coyotes baseball team didn’t show signs of life until it was too late in a 4-2 loss to the Mt. Whitney-Visalia Pioneers in Mel Parker Field during the Coca-Cola Tournament. Despite outhitting the Pioneers (9-8), the Coyotes only scored a pair of runs. Mt. Whitney took advantage of four walks against Coyotes’ starter […]
Madera County sought solvency right from the start
All of Madera County was buzzing in 1893! Had we separated from Fresno County only to be eaten alive by our own newly created bureaucratic monster? Some thought so. Creating the new county was hard work, and there were obviously delicate issues with which Madera County’s first Board of Supervisors had to deal — like […]