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Accident tangles SR99 traffic

Accident tangles SR99 traffic

Courtesy of Madera Police Department A construction vehicle sits across both northbound lanes of State Route 99 after crashing into a temporary construction wall. Madera-area California Highway Patrol and other authorities responded to a major traffic collision on northbound State Route 99 just south of the Fresno River on Monday afternoon. Northbound traffic on SR 99 was stopped for several hours, with street traffic being diverted through Madera at Gateway Drive in the city

Disney on Ice set for performance

Disney on Ice set for performance

For The Madera Tribune Angie Lien, a performer with Disney on Ice, will perform as the character Elsa from “Frozen” during Disney on Ice’s presentation of “Mickey’s Search Party.” Disney on Ice will makes its annual trip to Fresno this week and will feature Mickey’s Search Party. The show begins Thursday and will last through Monday. Tickets can be purchased at DisneyonIce.com or at the Fresno Convention Center box office. Show times are at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Mond

Madera Library competes in robotics

Not long after Madera High School won the first ever robotics championship in Houston last April, Ignacio Negrete thought to himself that he should work on forming one. Negrete, who works as a desktop technician in the IT department at the Madera County Library, decided he would create one that kids could join and get in on the robotics craze. “I used the wind from their sails,” Negrete said. “While the hype was up is when I presented it to our friends at the library group an

Opinion: AOC kneecaps the Dems

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked off 2020 by kneecapping her colleagues. The bartender-turned-congresswoman announced in early January that she would not be paying her share of party dues (dues which amount to roughly $250,000) to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The Democrats’ main campaign arm, the DCCC recruits and raises funds for candidates as well as incumbents. Each House Democrat is customarily expected to contribute to the committee at a level commensu

Opinion: Freeway toll lanes: The bait-and-switch expands

Diamond lanes for the rich. Lexus lanes. A classic bait-and-switch. Social engineering on a massive scale. Taking the free out of freeways. Republican officials working for then-President George W. Bush in 2008 didn’t apply any of those epithets to their plan to charge tolls and allow solo drivers into carpool lanes on freeways in some of the most crowded parts of California. Rather, they dangled hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives before state and local officials t

Letter: ‘The Bernie Bubble’

Get out of the “Bernie Bubble,” and you’ll see that only “Bernie Bros” believe Sen. Sanders has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning anything(other then maybe New Hampshire.) Jeremy Corbyn, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale — don’t add Bernie Sanders to that list of epic fails! Michael Dukakis, Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. Why do you think Russian government internet bots supported Bernie? Because Trump’s boss Putin was terrified of Hillary. Even drunk Russians kn

Big first half leads Coyotes

Big first half leads Coyotes

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Alek Trukki brings the ball up the court during Friday’s victory over Madera South. He scored a game-high 20 points, with 18 coming on six 3-pointers. The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team got a hot-shooting performance from Alek Trukki and forced 33 turnovers for a 51-34 victory over Madera South. Trukki hit six 3-pointers in the first three quarters to score a game-high 20 points to lead the Coyotes. Madera jumped out to a 30-14

Coyotes get win over rivals

Coyotes get win over rivals

Courtesy of Christopher Cross Madera’s Cathy Figueroa drives to the rim for a layup to score two of her team-high 14 points in Friday’s victory over Madera South with Lexi Cota defending. Keyed by another well-played first half, the Madera Coyotes girls basketball team held off the Madera South Stallions long enough for a 53-48 victory. Cathy Figueroa led the Coyotes with 14 points while going 8-of-17 from the free throw line Friday. Five other players scored six or more poin

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