Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera South’s Justin Caballero reaches up for an attack over the Matilda Torres block of Braeden Bispham (11) and Kaden Valmonte (3). The Madera South Stallions out hit the Matilda Torres Toros en route to a 3-1 North Yosemite League victory at Matilda Torres. The Stallions put down 48 kills with five players with five or more kills Monday evening. The Toros had 39 kills with four players with five or more kills. Justin Caballero led all

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune The Madera Coyote softball team honors its seniors after Tuesday’s 10-inning walk-off victory over the Sanger Apaches. From left are Coach Judy Shaubach, Brilynn Santiago, Destinee Avila, Emily Erwin, Kylie Powell, Malea Ricks and Coach Melissa Armiento. In an old-fashioned pitcher’s dual, the Madera Coyotes and Sanger Apaches softball teams combined for just three runs while the Coyotes walked off a 2-1 victory at Zimmerman’s Field on Senio

Is the State’s required calculation method costing your water system thousands of dollars? For many small and rural drinking water systems, the answer may be yes — and it comes down to how “average” is calculated. The State Division of Drinking Water requires a simple average to determine long-term arsenic levels as well as other contaminants. Madera County simply follows the state method. While straightforward, this method can produce misleading results — sometimes overstati

With astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Weisman tucked inside, Artemis II took off from Cape Canaveral on April 1, 2026. And it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. Eight million pounds of thrust lifted the 73,735 pounds of space craft off the launching pad and started its slingshot trip to the Moon. This mission costs somewhere between $4.1 and $4.2 billion, but the overall Artemis program had a total expense of $93 billion, through 2025. The “space to

It was probably about 25 years ago. I had returned to school to get my MBA at Fresno State’s Craig School of Business. I was doing what they call burning a candle at both ends, working full-time, going to classes in the evenings and studying late at night and early in the mornings. My favorite place to read and study was in the corner of our sectional sofa in the living room. The only problem was that the lighting was not good there. So, I told David what I needed was one of

For The Madera Tribune Coarsegold, home of the Magnet mine. William McNaughton was foreman of the Magnet gold mines near O’Neals at the turn of the 20th century. Apparently the community did not hold him in very high repute, especially when it came to paying his debts. Such was McNaughton’s reputation that when one of his prospective miners learned the kind of fellow for whom he was going to work, he quit before he started. Strangely enough, when the man didn’t show up for wo

Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Malea Ricks drives the ball into left-centerfield for a double to drive in a run during Friday’s win over Stockdale in the Best of the West Tournament in Santa Maria. The double was the 164th hit of her four-year career, breaking the school record set in 2014. SANTA MARIA — The Madera Coyotes softball team picked up a pair of wins and suffered a pair of losses at the Best of the West Softball Tournament in Santa Maria over the weekend.

Do not vote for Measure T; it will not repair roads, as advertised. Where has it gone so far? Avenue 12 resurface. Who uses that road? Fresno. They work here, but live in Fresno. Some went to a road in Chowchilla towards Eastman lake. Nice road, but who uses it? Better yet, who lives on it. Now, we are paying for a widening of State Route 41 by Tesoro Viejo! We also paid for a “ByPass” through that development. All that should have been “Impact Fees” paid for by the Developer