For The Madera Tribune The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help to locate Gregory Perez. If anyone has information, call (559) 675-7770 or Detective Andrade at (559) 517-7997. The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help to locate Gregory Perez, 54, last seen on October 1, around 5 p.m., leaving his home in Coarsegold.  He was wearing blue jeans, a red t-shirt, a tan hat, and sandals.  Gregory is 5’9”, 175 pounds, with long brown/grey hair and blue eyes. He ha

CHP Madera officers responded to a traffic crash involving two vehicles, on Road 400, at River Road on October 16 at about 9:30 a.m. A 61-year-old woman from Madera, was driving a gray 2023 Ford Explorer, northbound on Road 400, approaching River Road. A 40-year-old man from Madera, was seated in the right front passenger seat of the Ford Explorer.   A 75-year-old man from Raymond was driving a white 1994 Ford F-350, southbound on Road 400, approaching River Road.

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera South’s Melanie Fuentes sends a kill past the McLane block during Tuesday’s loss to the Highlanders on Senior Night.  On a night to honor five Madera South Stallions’ girls volleyball seniors, it was the McLane Highlanders that came out with more energy in a three-set sweep Tuesday evening.  The Highlanders put down 27 kills and 12 aces in a 25-23, 25-15, 25-16 win. The Stallions recorded 26 kills, but also missed nine serves while re

Jorge Orozco/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Anthony Bursey runs into the end zone to give the Coyotes the lead in last week’s loss to San Joaquin Memorial.  After a relatively calm first half with the teams combining for 28 points, the Madera Coyotes and the San Joaquin Memorial Panthers combined for 68 second half points in a 50-46 Memorial win last week.  The Coyotes had a chance for a game-winning drive, but a fumble recovery in the end zone helped give the Panthers the victo

The 19th annual Pumpkin Smash Halloween Bash Enduro race features a full field of fearless drivers racing Saturday on a Madera Speedway filled with obstacles such as slimy pumpkin guts, soap, water, and other debris in a 200-lap spectacle.  Drivers race 100-laps in each direction around the one-third mile asphalt oval with sights on the cash prize and the trophy. All seating is general admission with tickets available at the gates. Adults are $15 and youth ages 6-12 are just

California stands at a crossroads with Proposition 50, a measure that threatens to unravel the progress we’ve made toward unbiased, transparent redistricting. Californians strongly rejected partisan gerrymandering by establishing the Citizens Redistricting Commission, taking map-drawing power from self-serving Sacramento politicians, and putting it in the hands of an impartial group dedicated to fairness, not politics. The Commission has been far from perfect, but it beats th

Remember Elon Musk? No, not the disemploymentator. The high-tech industrial genius who was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada in 1989. There, he attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he received a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School. Since then, he has been busy amassing money. Even before he was granted his degrees, he co

Last week I went to the doctor for my annual exam. I normally have very good results from the exam, the bloodwork, and the screenings that make up an annual check-up. When the doctor came into the room, he gave me a greeting and asked if I was feeling as well as I normally do. I admitted that this time there were a few items I wanted to share with him. The first, and the most troubling concern was my frequent heartburn. He said he would put through an order for an endoscopy,