Seaborn earns MCSO promotion
Valerie Seaborn has been a Correctional Officer with the Madera County Jail since 2000 and recently earned a promotion to a lieutenant. In that time, she has served in the Transportation Unit, Classification Unit, she was the Training Sergeant, the Special Operations Response Team leader, and initiated the Community Service Project, which is still active […]
Sheriff caught the mineshaft murderer
On July 14, 1933, Albert Fuller, Madera County’s “Mine Shaft Murderer,” climbed the steps of the gallows and paid for killing his bootlegging business partner, James Kipp. The murder and Fuller’s two-year attempt to escape the hangman’s noose grabbed the attention of the people and turned it into one of the most notorious crimes in […]
We’re not on strike
I just heard on the news that the employees of The New York Times went on a 24-hour strike for “a fair contract.” I won’t go into any details, as I am sure most of our readers have already heard this little tidbit of news; but as I listened to what was happening with this […]
World War I, July 25, 1918
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Opinion: Toys under the tree
Remember the first Christmas when all your presents under the Christmas Tree were clothing? My cousin Kary and I were talking, and she said, “What are we supposed to do, go play with our new underwear?” Everyone should get at least one toy at Christmas. In our family, we opened presents on Christmas morning. I […]
Opinion: A nation of laws, not men?
Recently, in my Book Talk column that appears in the Wednesday edition of this newspaper, I posed a question asked by a fictional rabbi in a fictional book (“Button Man”) by fiction writer Andrew Gross: “What does it mean to be a good man?” Now I paraphrase that question in a broader and non-fictional context: […]
Coyotes close out win over Clovis
The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team closed out its match-up with the Clovis Cougars on a 14-2 run to pick up a 62-54 non-league victory in Joe Flores Gym. The Coyotes, who fell victim to an 11-1 run to open the fourth quarter, used the defensive intensity to overcome the run and make one of […]
Coyotes mauled by Cougars
The Clovis Cougars took advantage of mistakes by the Madera Coyotes boys soccer team for a 6-1 non-conference victory in Memorial Stadium. The Coyotes, with a rivalry game against Madera South on the horizon, saw a lot of their flaws come to the surface in Tuesday’s loss. “It was a little bit of our inexperience […]