Bill Coate
Madera almost had a lynching
For The Madera Tribune Justice came quickly for Walter Yeager after he murdered police officer Clarence Pickett in 1923. Fourteen months...
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Marge Medellin entered Madera politics
The Madera Tribune File Photo Councilwoman Marge Medellin talks during a city council meeting. We don’t know for sure when Marge Medellin...
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Raymond man lost the Battle of the Balcony
For The Madera Tribune Ben Ducker, left, poses with his son William in 1900, as he holds the shotgun that he used in the Battle of the...
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Richard Thomas: Madera’s 3rd fallen police officer
For The Madera Tribune Officer Denny Shannon, shown here was a pallbearer for Officer Richard Thomas who had been shot while...
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The year the tower came tumbling down
For The Madera Tribune In 1953, Madera’s beautiful jailhouse tower was demolished in order to build a more secure hoosegow. Before the...
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Abandoned O’Neals mother finally got her due
For The Madera Tribune In 1911, the year that Ellen White graduated from Spring Valley School, shown here, she learned that she had...
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Marge made history
For The Madera Tribune Marge Medellin with former Vice President Walter Mondale. I first met Marge Medellin in 1972 when I moved to...
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‘Warring Italians — Fierce Fight — Lucca’s Barroom Wrecked’
For The Madera Tribune At the turn of the 20th century, Maderans worked hard and played hard. This group labored at the Madera Sugar Pine...
