For The Madera Tribune Asterisk Talley. LOS ANGELES — The top two-ranked players in the Rolex AJGA Girls Rankings — Aphrodite Deng (1) and Chowchilla’s Asterisk Talley (2) — have accepted sponsor invitations to tee it up against the world’s best professional golfers on the LPGA Tour at the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro, April 13-19 at El Caballero Country Club in Los Angeles. Talley, 17, will make her second consecutive appearance at the JM Eagle LA Champions

For The Madera Tribune Craig Judd. The Chowchilla Chamber of Commerce invites the community and art enthusiasts to an evening celebrating one of Chowchilla’s most acclaimed artists. On April 25, from 4-8 p.m., the Chamber of Commerce will host an exclusive art show showcasing the extraordinary pinstriping mastery of Craig Judd at the Chowchilla American Legion Hall, 445 Trinity Avenue. A lifelong Chowchilla resident who has operated from his backyard garage studio for more t

Workers at Redrock Environmental Group voted to join Teamsters Local 431. This vote and victory to join the Teamsters marks a critical step for the new 30-worker unit, the first unit to organize at the company. The workers overwhelmingly voiced support for joining the Teamsters in the lead up to the election, knowing the unit will be backed by the union to fight for a contract that delivers safety at the workplace, good wages and strong health care benefits for workers at t

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Isabella Aguirre delivers a pitch during Wednesday’s home loss to Clovis East. Aguirre allowed three unearned runs on just two hits over the final five innings. She also delivered an RBI single in the 8-6 loss. The Madera Coyotes softball team won the West Valley Invitational after playing three games in the Arizona heat on Saturday, and then drove more than eight hours home on Sunday. Three days later, the Coyotes still looked ti

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Sammy McDonald reaches up for a kill attempt in Tuesday’s four-set loss to Hoover. McDonald led the Coyotes with 16 kills. With the fans not blowing in Joe Flores Gym, players and fans had to tolerate the heat on the hottest day of the year in the Madera Coyotes boys volleyball match against Hoover. The Coyotes out hit the Patriots 48-36, but too many hitting errors hurt the Coyotes in a four-set loss in Tuesday’s loss. Sammy McDo

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera South lead-off batter Josiah Ortiz swings at a pitch in Tuesday’s loss to Roosevelt. The Stallions only had two hits in the 14-2 defeat at Eddie Chapa Field. The Madera South Stallions had trouble on the field, and it hurt in a 14-2 loss to the Roosevelt Rough Riders at Eddie Chapa Field. The Stallions committed as many errors as Roosevelt had hits (8) in Tuesday’s loss. To make matters worse, the Stallions only managed two hits, an

“Pushing up daisies” may no longer be just a colloquial expression about being dead. It now appears that some of us may, indeed, be pushing up daisies, and vegetables, and palm trees… someday. In Madera County? Well, right next door in Friant. It’s already happening, according to Your Central Valley. This becomes possible because of actions taken by our lawmakers and reported in SFGate. In 2022, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia introduced AB351, which was passed by the legislatu

I may have mentioned a few times in past articles that I came from the area of our country known as the “South,” and I grew up knowing quite a few expressions that are particular to that region of the United States. I’m not sure you can divide a southerner from the expressions we use. We don’t think about them. They are just part of our language. Most of them make perfect sense to others, but there are some expressions we have to explain. I had a friend many years ago who was