

Unusual traffic stop in Madera County
For The Madera Tribune During a traffic stop for excessive speed, a spider monkey, about a month old, was discovered in a car. It is...
For The Madera Tribune

Saroyan remembered Madera High students
For The Madera Tribune William Saroyan. William Saroyan didn’t seem to need anyone’s approval. He almost never went to a college or...
Bill Coate
Why we use the Gregorian Calendar
We are at the beginning of a New Year, and as we celebrate the arrival of 2025, we may want to visit how our calendar came to be, and...
Nancy Simpson


Boy delivered the Tribune on horseback
For The Madera Tribune This temper tantrum thrown by the Fresno River in 1958 was nothing compared to its rage in 1938 when it left its...
Bill Coate


How an arrow wound kept Dr. Leach in the Valley
For The Madera Tribune Dr. Louis Leach. For thousands of years Native Americans held a monopoly on the land that is now the San Joaquin...
Bill Coate

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...
Bill Coate


Italian immigrants gave up a son
For The Madera Tribune The Ferretti family. Eugenio Ferretti and Maria Ceccarelli were married in 1920 in Marlia in the Italian Province...
Bill Coate

A voice from ‘Schindler’s List’
For The Madera Tribune The Leyson family before their move to Krakow. Leon Leyson was born on Sept. 15, 1929, in the tiny village of...
Bill Coate