Opinion: State’s voters smarter than ‘experts’ think
For more than two months, California airwaves were filled with political hype, in large part because of the unprecedented push for early voting caused by the coronavirus pandemic and threats of a deliberate U.S. Postal Service slowdown. Not much was spent here on the presidential race, because its outcome in California was never in doubt. […]
Vilma Salcedo Warner: Resident since 1995
This is a partial excerpt from Neighbors: Oral History from Madera, California Volume 2 by Lawrence F. Lihosit, a local historian. It is available at Maildrop and G.B.S. on Howard and on Amazon.com Books. • • • Vilma Salcedo Warner was born on December 27, 1957 in a remote small river town called Puerto Uribe, […]
Coyotes softball player Ricks signs with Howard
Liberty Hawks pick way to semifinals
2014 The Liberty Hawks football team has made a tradition out of playing football on Thanksgiving morning in preparation for a semifinal playoff game. After a 41-21 victory over No. 8 seed Kerman in the Div. IV quarterfinals, the Hawks will host No. 4 seed Golden West-Visalia after the Hawks practice on Thanksgiving morning for […]
Madera’s scouts were always prepared
The headline in The Madera Tribune read, “Scout Jamboree Cancelled Due to Polio.” The decision to cancel the first Boy Scout World Jamboree in the United States was made because of an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Virginia. Plans had called for 30,000 boy scouts to assemble in Washington D.C. from the 21st to the […]