Bill Coate
One armed painter went on the warpath
For The Madera Tribune Sheriff Jasper Lewis, shown here with his wife, had his hands full with a renegade, one-armed painter on the...
Bill Coate
Woman died fighting for her kids
For The Madera Tribune Eva Fridley Garner. Eva Fridley and John Garner were married in Modesto and moved to Madera in 1890. She was 16,...
Bill Coate
Fire cleared the way for Courthouse Park
For The Madera Tribune It didn’t take long for Courthouse Park to take shape after a fire in 1909 cleared the property of every building...
Bill Coate
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
For The Madera Tribune Dr. Albert Wilburn will be among the African-Americans featured in a Madera Method history project that will...
Bill Coate
One son died; one lived
For The Madera Tribune Navy Blue Angels; 1949. Maderan Raleigh Rhodes is shown third from the right. Welton Rhodes and William O. Justice...
Bill Coate
Robber got the drop on Madera police
For The Madera Tribune Walter Thomas, shown here second from the left in the 1930s. At the time he was one-fifth of the Madera police...