Caltrans announces grants for local projects via Clean California program
Underserved communities to see benefits FRESNO — Following Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement this week of $296 million in Clean California grants to underserved communities throughout the state, Caltrans will locally fund 15 PROJECTS in the district 6 region that includes Kern, Tulare, Madera and Kings counties to remove trash, create jobs and engage communities to […]
Stallions stay hot with win in the cold
With the weather feeling like the middle of the winter, the Madera South Stallions baseball team heated up with a 12-0 victory over the Firebaugh Eagles in the Central Valley Diamond Classic at Eddie Chapa Field. The Stallions banged out nine hits and took advantage of three Eagles’ errors for the 12-0 victory Saturday. Brain […]
Herrera re-sets school record at Colorado
For the third time, former Madera South Stallions’ standout Eduardo Herrera set the Colorado University school record in the mile at the Pac-12 Indoor Invitational last month. Herrera won the race in a time of 3:57.16 and now owns more school records than any Colorado University male with the outdoor 1,500-meter record, the indoor 3,000 […]
Erickson dedicates Madera win to mother
Madera Speedway’s winningest Late Model driver, Matt Erickson, scored an emotional win in the Madera Speedfest 100 to earn a $5,000 triumph for the MAVTV-televised Lunkerdaddy Pro Late Model season opener. The Saturday night win was Erickson’s sixth in a season-opening Pro or Open Late Model event since 2012 at the one-third mile. Erickson was […]
Late runs down Coyotes
The Madera Coyotes baseball team’s lack of execution led to a 2-1 loss to the Fresno Warriors at Mel Parker Field in the Coca-Cola classic. The Warriors scored two runs in the sixth inning and held on for the victory. Madera scored its run in the first inning, but couldn’t add to the lead. “The […]
Coyotes drop second straight to Merced Bears
MERCED — For the second straight season, the Madera Coyotes softball team couldn’t find the right buttons to push in a match-up with the Merced Bears. The Bears only had three hits in Friday’s game against the Coyotes and made all three of them count in Merced. The Coyotes battled through adjustments and pushed over […]
Hawk wrestlers capture fourth NSL title
Like many teams this school year, the Liberty Hawks wrestling season was plagued with adversity. Beyond the usual challenges and sacrifices that wrestling programs face to compete, the winter COVID wave ran through the wrestling team. However, the team goals were always the light at the end of the tunnel. Competition cancellations made it difficult […]
Opinion: Some people ask why; he asks, why knot?
Originally published March 15, 2007. The big thing in fashion news these days is necktie knots. I’m no slave to fashion (not even a hired hand, my friends and associates will tell you) but I do wear a tie once in a while, so it caught my attention when it was reported that many of […]
Book Talk: Connelly, master of police procedurals
Michael Connelly has shown once again that he is the master of police procedurals in his latest novel, “The Dark Hours” (2021, 388 pages), featuring Renée Ballard. He introduced this character in his 2017 publication, “The Late Show,” where she is bumped from the elite Robbery-Homicide Division to working the night shift in the Hollywood […]
Letters: Retiring in Madera
My wife and I moved to Madera in 1978, retired in 2018, and are staying. We know people who left California to be closer to family. We wish you health and happiness. Others left because of their “beliefs.” One, whose family first welcomed me here, took his grandchildren with him to Idaho. He told me […]