Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Furman High School leadership students display a banner for the first prom they will host outdoors on campus. The event will be held May 13. Raffle tickets for Furman Prom Prize: 7-day stay at a resort owned by Worldmark by Windham Cost: $30 (only 100 tickets sold) Purchase: Furman High School office or call the school (675-4482) to make arrangements For the first time in school history, Furman High School will host a prom. The brainchild of

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue, front center left, gathers with staff after the Madera County Sheriff’s Office hosted a special badge ceremony, merging with the Madera County Department of Corrections. Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue hosted a special badge ceremony to celebrate a monumental occasion in Madera County history. During the ceremony, Sheriff Pogue observed the retirement of the Department of Corrections badge and presented t

For The Madera Tribune Anzello “Red” Lunetti is shown here in a Folsom Prison photo. He was incarcerated for the killing of John Cerioni, brother of William Cerioni, in 1915. William G. Cerioni was a pioneer Madera businessman. His name was a household word when it came to men and women’s clothing, even after his death in 1962. In 1968, six years after her husband’s passing, Mrs. Cerioni gave an interview to The Madera Tribune in which she traced her husband’s roots back to I

It’s the pits to feel unappreciated, when you feel you have given it your all, and no one notices. When we feel that way, it is usually only a specific person or group of people we care about noticing. Sometimes it is a spouse, or a supervisor. Sometimes it is others, like co-workers or neighbors. This feeling sometimes comes because of envy or resentment, but more often we get that feeling because others are just in their own little worlds and just flat don’t notice. If you

Journee Joan Dawn Sappe Journee Joan Dawn Sappe born Nov. 11, 2021, at Madera Community Hospital. Welcoming the 7-pound, 14-ounce, 19 1/2-inch newborn newborn are parents Shawn Sappe and Julia Mallony of Madera. Grandparents are Mitchell and Barbara Mallony, and Henry and Mary Sappe. Nathan Jason Garcia Nathan Jason Garcia born Nov. 14, 2021, at Madera Community Hospital. Welcoming the 6-pound, 6-ounce, 19-inch newborn are parents Edward Garcia and Betsabeth Velazquez of Made

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Soroptimist scholarship recipients from left, Hugolina Salazar, Alyssa Perez, Gladys Torres-Carmona, Isabel Rodriguez, Courtney Huber, Isabel Jimenez, Leslie Mendoza and Frida Martinez were honored during a luncheon at Madera United Methodist Church on April 21. The Soroptimist International of Madera honored eight graduating seniors from Madera South and Madera high schools at its annual scholarship luncheon. Five seniors from Madera and th

Not a fan of the expression “Back in the day…” So let’s start out with “Once upon a time…” A young, college girl spent many of her mornings frying donuts at the SnoWhite Drive-in. She was not a morning person, so the 5 o’clock check-in time was only one of the reasons I hated my job. Imagine, if you will, placing a large rack of donuts into hot grease at that ungodly hour. On other days, I worked the window serving burgers and the best chili dogs in town. Either assignment le

Midterm elections are still a half year away, but it’s not too early to start thinking about a presidential candidate for 2024. We need to start now because 2024 may be our opportunity to return our nation to true leadership. And that will take a statesman or stateswoman, not a slogan. We don’t need to “Make American Great Again” because this country never stopped being great. Nor do we need to “Build Back Better” because our more-than-two-hundred-year-old country is continua