Liberty High School is preparing to honor the Class of 2026 during its annual graduation ceremony on Wednesday. This year’s ceremony will look a little different as the event will be held in the Liberty High School quad due to ongoing renovations at the school stadium. Despite the venue change, Liberty High School staff and Golden Valley Unified School District employees have worked diligently to create a meaningful and memorable experience for graduates and their families. T

For The Madera Tribune Tory Green. For Liberty High School graduate Tory Green, all she was trying to do was to take classes that interested her. After four years, those interests have come to fruition. Her classes have earned her a 4.32 grade point average, good for No. 2 in the class ranking. “I was just taking classes that interested me. I didn’t even know it would get me that high. I was just doing what I wanted. I was surprised when they told me I was No. 2,” she said. “

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Election workers Judy Sears, left, and Carol Kennedy, collect ballots from Matt Patrick and Kristi-Ann Anderson at the Madera County Government Center on Tuesday. Voter turnout: 23.08% Ballots cast: 19,027 Madera County Offices Superintendent of School Tricia Protzman 99.65% 12,551 Supervisor, District 1 Jordan Wamhoff 86.13% 3,396 Benjamin Martin 13.85% 546 Supervisor, District 2 David Rogers 64.57% 1,928 John Chavez

Madera Police Department Officer Gaige Bonderer was on patrol when he observed a vehicle performing “donuts” and driving recklessly in the area of Merced Street and Kennedy Street. The driver was arrested Monday night for reckless driving, and booked into the Madera County Jail. The vehicle was impounded for 30 days. Reckless driving creates a significant risk for everyone on the roadway, including other drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and nearby residents. These actions ca

California families are paying some of the highest gasoline prices in America, and politicians continue acting like this happened by accident. It did not. This crisis was created through years of shutting down refineries, reducing in-state oil production, and making California more dependent on foreign crude oil imports from unstable regions of the world. Today, California imports the majority of the crude oil used by our refineries. According to the California Energy Commiss

It’s been a year since I revisited my old standby topic for this column: California’s High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA). That’s because nothing much has happened. Oh sure, if you drive up and down the valley, you can probably see people working on various projects every day. They have jobs to do, and they are well-paying jobs. According to the CAHSRA website, the Authority sent out requests for proposals to contractors for laying tracks. The Board approved $3.5 billion for t

When I was in high school, I liked math and English, and that is where I excelled. I thought history was boring. In fact, I disliked history so much that I had to repeat American History in the eleventh grade. I signed up and took it again in summer school, and that teacher made it much more interesting. Plus, he was very cute, which enticed me to pay more attention. I did not begin to enjoy history until almost 10 years later, while I was living in Haiti. At that time, there