Caltrans breaks ground on Cottonwood Creek Project
MADERA COUNTY — Caltrans broke ground on a project to replace three aging bridges on State Route 99 in Madera County. The $36.8 million project was made possible by $26 million in funding from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 and $10 million in funding from Senate Bill (SB) 1, the […]
Coyotes fall to league leading Sanger
While the Sanger Apaches and the Bullard-Fresno Knights battle it out for the County/Metro Athletic Conference title, Madera Coyotes boys volleyball head coach Rhonda Jefferson-Counsel is trying to prove her team is one of the best of the second division. The Coyotes could finish out the CMAC season with a third place finish and that […]
AAUW hosting Madtown 5K
The eighth annual 5K run and walk sponsored by American Association Of University Women will be held Saturday beginning at 8 am at Cedar Creek Senior Living, 500 N West Berry in Madera. The cost is $25 a person or $40 per family (2 adults and their legal children). Late registration is $30 a person […]
Book Talk: Connelly, ‘Desert Star’
Ever since I read my first Michael Connelly novel, I have bought his most recent publication. Connelly’s name is on a fairly short list of the best contemporary story tellers and writers. His first best-seller, “The Void Moon,” featured Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, who — unlike most protagonists — has aged as the years have gone […]
Letters: Oath is still sacred
Our elected and many appointed officials swear an oath to protect our state and federal constitutions from our enemies, foreign and domestic. I swore that sacred oath several times. How’s that working out? In NYC, the U.S. Department of Justice filed three criminal indictments alleging that Chinese Communist government agents have been illegally tracking, surveilling, […]
Getting into a pickle
The morning of writing this, I had just made pickled eggs and beets, enough to fill (almost) a gallon jar. I didn’t grow up with such fare, but my mother-in-law did, and I was happy to learn how to make pickled eggs and beets. I used to always grow my own beets, and I still […]
Another scam
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The rest of the Carmen story
By Sept. 12, 1958, Rayna Tom Carmen, a Mono Indian, had been waiting eight years for the door to San Quentin’s gas chamber to open for him. He had first been put on death row in June 1950 for the murder of another North Fork Indian, Wilbur McSwain. When that conviction was overturned, Carmen was […]