Second chowder cookoff scheduled
Although there were some hiccups last year, the second Clam Chowder Cook-off is set for March 26 at The Waffle Spot parking lot at Country Club Village. “This year, we actually pulled the permits like we were supposed to last year so we don’t get blindsided,” said Kim Praytor, owner of The Waffle Spot (1101 […]
Madera Police honor officers of the year
The Madera Police Department recently announced its employees of the year for 2021. The Non-Sworn Officer of the Year is Gabriel Mayorga. “Gabriel has a strong work ethic and never hesitates to assist his fellow coworkers. He has a great attitude with the public and his peers,” said a Madera Police Department statement. Mayorga started […]
Former players return to coach
Teammates on the 2014 Madera Coyotes softball team, Mariah Davis and Aaliyah Cuevas, are giving back to the softball community by helping their fathers coach at Liberty High School and Madera South High School, respectively. Davis, who attended Bethune Cookman in Daytona Beach, Florida, graduated in 2019 and began helping her father, Keith, with the […]
Opinion: Good reason for a gas tax holiday
It was a gutsy call when Gov. Gavin Newsom in late February suggested a gas tax holiday. That kind of move has been anathema for California governors since the 2003 recall of Democrat Gray Davis in favor of movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger made hay on the false assertion that Davis added a new gas […]
Book Talk: Iles — ‘Cemetery Road’
Buck Ferris died because he found an Indian artifact that may have been thousands of years old. The important archaeological find takes place in Bienville, a little city of no consequence located along the Mississippi River. And, if it becomes known that the area was once inhabited by a Native American group, the Chinese paper […]
Marching to Irish flavor
It’s amazing to me how quickly our annual events and observations come around again. Everywhere I look I see green, as St. Patrick’s Day displays compete with the pastel Easter ones. Even the landscape is proudly showing off its green, as grass grows and trees leaf out. Might as well enjoy it, since it won’t […]
Sheriff Jones missed his man
Yosemite Avenue and D Street appeared peaceful enough for Saturday morning. A few buggies were tied to the hitching posts in front of Tighe and Breyfogle’s, while small knots of Maderans gathered on the street corners and under the store awnings to exchange the latest news flash. Every lawman in town had gone to the […]