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Hawks bounce back in big way

Hawks bounce back in big way

Madera Tribune File Photo Liberty’s A.J. Leon runs over a Kerman defender for part of his 98 yards during the Hawks’ 39-6 win over the Lions in 2011. 2011 The Kerman Lions football team entered its game against Liberty winless, and the Hawks put together their most complete, dominating effort of the season to make sure Kerman stayed that way with a 39-6 win over the Lions. Liberty’s Ryan Colebrook started the game off with a bang when he took the opening kickoff 82 yards thro

Fire burns iconic former Madera Athletic Club building

Fire burns iconic former Madera Athletic Club building

DJ Becker of The Madera Tribune Firefighters pour water on the raging fire that broke out Thursday night at the former athletic club on Sunset Avenue at Orchard Avenue. A fast moving fire destroyed the vacant complex of buildings once known as The Madera Athletic Club in the 1800 block of Sunset Avenue. No injuries were reported in the fire. Madera Battalion Fire Chief Chris Trindade said the fire was reported about 10:15 p.m. Thursday but the fire had likely been burning at

Former sheriff Bates turns 95-years-old

Former sheriff Bates turns 95-years-old

Madera County Historical Society Ed Bates. Madera County’s unorthodox, ‘Wild-West’ sheriff celebrated his birthday on election day A dozen pay phones lined the combination firehouse/police station in Chowchilla on that July afternoon in 1976. Twenty-six school children and their bus driver had been kidnapped, and newspaper reporters fought for space at the makeshift phone bank. Suddenly a man with a lean, hard torso and a jutting jaw came through the door and strode across th

Second half keeps Hawks undefeated

Second half keeps Hawks undefeated

Madera Tribune File Photo Madera’s Jessica Petroff placed third over to lead the Coyote girls cross country team to its first County/Metro Athletic Conference championship Woodward Park. 2014 The Liberty Hawks football team faced its biggest adversity of the season and came through with flying colors after scoring all of its points in the second half of a 34-16 victory over the Kerman Lions. The Hawks (9-0, 4-0 North Sequoia League) trailed 13 seconds into the game and were

Madera Rotary hosts online auction

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Rotary Club of Madera had to find another way to meet its fundraising demands. Madera Rotary’s refreshment booth at the Madera District Fair and the annual Halloween Dinner/Dance Costume Ball were cancelled. However, the club has chosen to conduct an online Autumn Auction to try to help get back some of the lost revenue. Proceeds will benefit the club’s projects which include OLIVE Organization’s Safe House for Human Trafficking victims,

Benny Muñoz: Resident since 1964

This is an excerpt from Neighbors: Oral History from Madera, California Volume 2 by Lawrence F. Lihosit, a local historian. It is available at Maildrop and G.B.S. on Howard and on Amazon.com Books. • • • Benny Muñoz was born the eldest of five on July 26, 1957 in Fresno. When he was very young, his family moved to Madera where he attended James Monroe and Washington Elementary Schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Madera High School (North Campus). A graduate of Univers

Fresh basil is a real prize

Fresh basil is a real prize

Cliff Hutson/Wikimedia Commons Fettuccine al Pesto alla genovese. I am trying to think of a time when I did not have at least two or three basil plants growing in my yard or on the deck. I still call it basilico, being that my Italian Nana always called it that. At this writing, I just returned home from being evacuated for seven days, and of all things, I had been worried about my kitchen garden out on the deck, which would have been deprived of water all that time. I was a

1918 fire brought ‘urban renewal’

1918 fire brought ‘urban renewal’

Madera County Historical Society The last frame buildings on South Yosemite Avenue went up in flames in 1918. They were the Cottage Saloon, the Madera Restaurant, and the Bank Saloon. They were replaced by brick buildings. Madera was founded in 1876, and from then until now the town has been ever mindful of the constant threat of fire. That fear is real. There have been enough conflagrations on Yosemite Avenue alone to fill a book on the subject. There is one downtown fire;

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