Madera legend, Ray Pool, dies at age 95
Ray Pool, highly esteemed Madera farmer, crop duster, and community benefactor, died Saturday evening, a victim of the COVID-19 virus with his family at his side. He was 95. Ray came to Madera from Arizona in 1933 at the age of 9 with his parents, Faye and Ray Thomas Pool, and three younger sisters. They […]
Madera Unified School District to begin all employees’ vaccination
Madera Unified School District has announced a plan to partner with Camarena Health and the Madera County Department of Public Health to administer COVID-19 vaccines to all of its employees. An agreement has been reached, which will allow every employee of Madera Unified to receive the vaccine at Madera South and Matilda Torres high school […]
Coyotes waste no time in dispatching Tigers
2011 Moving from the Tri-River Athletic Conference, a wrestling league regarded as one of the best in the state year-in-and-year-out with three to four state-ranked teams and a slew of state finalists every year, to the County/Metro Athletic Conference may have helped make the Coyotes sports programs more competitive across the board, but for the […]
504,576,000 seconds
That’s how many moments of my life I’ve spent working for this institution labeled “The Madera Tribune.” Roughly 16 years of my life, I’ve spent in dedicated service to it, and its owner, Charles Doud. In all the seconds, all those moments, it only took a single one to forever change my mindset on the […]
It’s National Peanut Butter Day
Looking ahead, I see that January 24 is Peanut Butter Day. This may sound a bit odd, but I am not all that gaga over peanut butter. I don’t hate it and I am not allergic to it, but it just was never a favorite. I do realize that most people like it a great […]
Ray Pool’s long ride is over
Ray and Kenny were great friends — for life! They were in the same grade, and they were the only two kids who rode horses every day to Arcola School. They would watch out for each other. If one fell off the horse, the other would be there to help him remount. Usually it was […]