Tyler Takeda and Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune The Liberty girls team is all smiles after receiving their Div. V runner-up plaque. FRESNO — While one school returned to prominence, other Madera schools showed they are also powers to be reckoned with at the Central Section Cross Country Championships at Woodward Park. The Madera South boys cross country team won the Div. I championship for the first time since 2016, and did it in rather easy fashion. Meanwhile, the Libert

Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune Liberty’s Dominic Castaneda runs behind a Max Nulick (44) block en route to a 46-yard touchdown run for the Hawks’ first score in Friday’s upset victory over Boron. BORON — If traveling to Reedley to defeat the top-seeded Immanuel Eagles wasn’t tough enough, traveling four hours to defeat the fourth-seeded Boron Bobcats satisfied head coach Mike Nolte’s Liberty Hawks. The eighth-seeded Hawks defeated Boron 20-6 and proved they deserved to be in

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera South’s Axel Rodriguez dribbles by a Sunnyside defender to score the game-tying goal in Friday’s tie. After wins against Firebaugh and McLane-Fresno to open the season, the Madera South boys soccer team settled for a well-earned 2-2 draw against visiting Sunnyside-Fresno. The soccer season is kicking into high gear and so are the Stallions after a strong performance that could’ve gone in favor of Madera South. “We played a well-organ

The Liberty Hawks boys basketball team opened the 2021-22 basketball season with a 57-48 victory over the Matilda Torres Toros. The Hawks rode a 13-7 first quarter lead and never looked back in Wednesday’s victory. “I’d say our bench is stepping up and keeping us in the game after Carson Stephens got into foul trouble plus a technical earlier in the game,” Liberty head coach Johnny Gonzales said on the keys to victory. “Stats might not show it, but their effort on defense and

It’s happening. Despite the best efforts of California’s highly ideological, developer-financed state legislators, the solution to this state’s widely acknowledged housing shortage is coming fast, driven more by market forces than by state laws. Even local bureaucrats who had long ignored the obvious solution are now gradually having to recognize it. That solution: Convert or repurpose the vast amount of square footage in office buildings and towers that has become vacant ove

Janet Evanovich has written (or, in a few cases, cowritten) 46 novels and one graphic novel (with her daughter Alex). Twenty-eight of them comprise the Stephanie Plum Number Series (i.e., One for the Money, Two for the Dough, etc.). But after Twisted Twenty-Six, for some reason, she started giving books in the series non-numeric titles (with a numeric sub-title). Last year’s offering was Fortune and Glory (Tantalizing Twenty-Seven). Hot off the press is this year’s Game On (T

Famartin, Wikimedia Commons Use leftover turkey to make delicious pot pies. This Thanksgiving, for the first time ever, I am serving a turkey that weighs less than 15 pounds. I usually search for the biggest one I can find. One year, I got one so large I had trouble securely closing the oven door, so I had to rig up something to hold it closed: a broomstick. My sons still tease me about that. Maybe this year I will not have so much leftover turkey meat, but if you find yourse

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society George Clark, shown here, was the founder of the Madera Tribune. He later brought his son, Howard Clark in as a partner. It was the younger Clark who took an active part in opposing the integration of Madera’s swimming pool in 1947. Tension was in the air in Madera in 1947. The long-standing exclusion of African-Americans from the city’s swimming pool was being challenged, and the integration attempts weren’t setting well with