Erickson wins second straight Madera race
The 2024 Mission Pro Late Model Series champion Matt Erickson prevailed over Henry Barton in a green-white-checkered finish to win his second consecutive 80-lap feature at Madera Speedway on Saturday night. Erickson topped Barton for the pole in qualifying, dominated much of the race, then withstood the late restart challenge for the win. Erickson came […]
Letters: Appreciation for our educators
The California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) joins Californians statewide to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week May 5-9 and Day of the Teacher on Wednesday, May 7. We honor our fellow educators who have given so much during the past few years. Though teachers always go “above and beyond” in their goal to support, encourage, and educate […]
Book Talk: David Baldacci, ‘Simply Lies’
“Mickey Gibson wiped the spit-up off Darby’s face, and then gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping that would hold her attention for a bit.” Although the books that she’d read claimed that toddlers were old enough to entertain themselves, she lifted 3-year-old Tommy onto her hip in order to stop him from […]
Old cookbook, old recipes
Years ago, a young couple who rented a storage unit at the Moss Landing Harbor, decided to have a “garage” sale. We keep our fishing boat over at Moss Landing, and I love books as much as I love fishing, so naturally, I wandered in to browse for books. I found a hardcover first edition […]
Disaster hit Sugar Pine’s Chinatown
It is well known that lumber was pivotal in both the creation and growth of Madera County. Its very name comes from the industry. Between 1874 and 1933 lumber was harvested in the mountains, rough cut in the mountain saw mill, and transported down the flume to the planing mill in Madera. Throughout the life […]