

Hunter’s Drug Store lasted 100 years
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society The only drug store in Madera in 1890 belonged to William Hunter. A primitive store in...
Bill Coate
Jan 12, 2022
Nancy’s miracle; fear took flight
Among the multiple concerns which the COVID pandemic has thrust on the human family, the specter of fear could be the worst. We are...
Bill Coate
Jan 12, 2022


Justice for Emmett Till: Killers to stand trial
For The Madera Tribune Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till, are shown here just before the youth’s murder. Sixty-six years have passed...
Bill Coate
Jan 8, 2022
A miracle on Howard Road
By any stretch, the young man should have died that October evening in 1985. The laws of physics should have left him flattened and...
Bill Coate
Jan 6, 2022


Taking the Titanic to Madera
Jim Barsotti/For The Madera Tribune Eugenia Genovesi Barsotti is shown here with her husband, Nello Barsotti on their wedding day in...
Bill Coate
Jan 5, 2022


Madera players faced pistols in Vallejo
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Looking none the worse from their ordeal in Vallejo, Madera’s championship roller polo...
Bill Coate
Jan 1, 2022


Tragedy hit Madera 116 years ago
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Maderans woke up on Christmas morning 115 years ago to this tragic scene. On the night...
Bill Coate
Dec 29, 2021
The miracle of sight
Christmas morning dawned, and all over Madera new sight had been given to thousands. Those who had once been blind now could see. Some...
Bill Coate
Dec 29, 2021









