Why was Madera founded?
Every historian writing of the founding of Madera includes an account of how the town was almost never built. As the story goes, when the California Lumber Company began building its flume from the mountains to the Southern Pacific tracks in the Valley, it had its sights on the little town of Borden for the […]
Arts council to host agriculture with the arts
Madera County Arts Council will host a public reception for the exhibit “Celebrate Agriculture with the Arts” at the Circle Gallery in Madera on Thursday starting at 5 p.m.at the council’s Circle Gallery (424 N. Gateway Drive). Admission is free. CDC Guidelines will be in place. The exhibit and competition was first launched in 1994 […]
Coyotes roll in rout of Kerman
If last week’s 35-0 performance against Selma wasn’t enough to convince skeptic, the Madera Coyotes’ 35-6 victory over the Kerman Lions showed the Coyotes are prepped for a shot at the County/Metro Athletic Conference title. Behind 270 yards through the air and three touchdowns, Madera’s Beau Green continues to dazzle. His accuracy, combined with the […]
Obstacles too much for Hawks to overcome
TEMPLETON — About an hour before his team was to take a three-hour bus ride to the coast, Liberty Hawks football coach Mike Nolte found out three starters wouldn’t make the trip due to COVID close contact tracing. Two of the three starters were two-way players on the offensive and defensive line and their absences […]
Stallions grab second victory
With a touchdown in the final two minutes of the game, the Madera South Stallions football team picked up its second victory of the season with a 24-21 win against Hanford West in Hanford. Quarterback Jacob Edwards scored Madera South’s last two touchdowns to give the Stallions the win Friday night. “We beat them pretty […]
Stallions celebrate Senior Night with 3-1 victory
Rather than wait until the end of the season, Madera South Stallions girls volleyball coach Travis McEowen decided to celebrate Senior Night early in the season and celebrated with a 3-1 match win over McLane-Fresno. Six of his seven seniors started the match and the seventh entered the match as a substitute. However, the Stallions […]
Opinion: Shoes of a different color
Originally published Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2012. When I was a little kid and mom was teaching me colors, they were known as red, blue, yellow and variations thereof. I was taught yellow and blue mixed together resulted in green. If you mixed red and blue, you would get purple, and so on. Never did she […]
Letters: Water issues still plague us
Thank you, Tom Willey, for the great water article. Our aquifer is and has been of great concern as the bread basket of our nation taps into it to raise water to the surface to nourish the crops we grow here in California. Additionally, we tap into it to quench the thirst of our communities, […]
Opinion: New COVID numbers show state beats Florida, Texas
New COVID numbers show California beats Florida and Texas by a lot It just might turn out that the Delta variant of the coronavirus becomes the best thing that’s happened to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in quite awhile. At the very moment mail-in ballots for the Sept. 14 recall election went out, new figures showed […]