Hawks make statement in Div. V playoff victory
The Liberty Hawks football team earned the No. 1 seed in the Div. V Central Section playoffs after a 10-0 regular season. The Hawks made a statement to the rest of the Div. V teams with a dominant 56-14 victory over No. 16 Selma on Friday at Liberty. After falling behind, 14-6, in the first […]
Second half surge not enough for Coyotes
After trailing by 14 points to open the game, the Madera Coyotes football team outscored the Independence Falcons the rest of the game, but the damage had already been done. The No. 6 seeded Falcons opened the game with a pair of touchdowns over No. 11 Madera in Friday’s Div. III Central Section first-round game […]
Book Talk: Sandra Brown, ‘White Hot’
I’m not sure if Sandra Brown knows how to write a novel without at least one steamy sex scene. She is the counterpoint to John Grisham who probably couldn’t write a sex scene if his life depended upon it. But the thing that gets me about Sandra Brown is that she writes great novels, wonderful […]
Rolling out the rolls
Even though I love dinner rolls, I only have them during big holiday dinners. The thing is, that type of dinner is also the time for lots of other special foods, and a plate can only hold just so much. Sometimes the rolls don’t find a place on my dinner plate. But they sure come […]
Madera drew big name politicians
In 1950, national politics caught the eye of most Maderans, especially the race between Congressman Richard Nixon and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Sheridan Downey. While the record shows that Douglas campaigned in Madera once, Nixon upstaged her by doing it twice. On April 11, 1950, Nixon came […]