Madera High School grad enters elite program
For Madera High School’s Alyssa Maldonado, the opportunity to stay close to home while getting a great education was too much to pass up. Maldonado had plenty of choices like UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis and Fresno State. However, she chose UC Merced to stay close to home. She was also accepted into the UC […]
MSHS top student chooses Notre Dame
When Naysa Villa was applying to colleges, she sent applications all across the nation and was accepted to many of them. Villa was accepted to numerous University of California schools and California State University colleges. Villa also was accepted to Ivy League schools Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth. In addition, she earned acceptances to the University […]
City wins sixth straight over County
FRESNO — The City squad had to hold off late threats from the County to record a 5-4 victory in the 54th annual City/County All-Star Baseball game at Chukchansi Park. The County squad cut the lead to one with two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to get the game close. Liberty’s Dylan […]
Ciummo scores late for MNLL title
In a classic pitcher’s dual, it came down to little mistakes that allowed Fitzgerald, Alvarez and Ciummo to score the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning for a 3-2 victory over defending champs McDonalds to win the Madera National Little League majors championship. Eli Guillen scored on a wild pitch in the […]
Book Talk: Carcaterra, ‘Street Boys’
Lorenzo Carcaterra is one of my favorite authors of fiction that is loosely based on historical fact. However, his novel “Street Boys” (2002, 336 pages in paperback format) seemed like such foolishness that I had to check the history of World War II in Italy to find out how closely he followed actual events. Fact: […]
Strawberries team up with rhubarb
June 9 is National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day, but I thought we could delve into some recipes for things that extend beyond just pies, such as jam, bread, cookies, etc. I have four rhubarb plants, but since all of them are growing in containers (due to a severe gopher problem), the plants are not as […]
Last hurrah for steamboats on the San Joaquin
As one leaves Madera County, traveling south across the Herndon Bridge at the San Joaquin River, there is little evidence that at one time this site was a busy steamboat landing known as Aliso or Sycamore. Similarly, as one leaves Madera County, traveling toward Kerman on Highway 145, at the Skaggs Bridge crossing, the site […]