

COVID-19, from dream to realty
For The Madera Tribune Mike Alvarez. Michael Alvarez looked at the man lying on the bed in the ICU unit. He was horrified at what he saw;...
Bill Coate
Nov 18, 2021


Lawman McCluskey remembered again
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society When Bernard (Barney) McCluskey was shot in 1919, he became the first Madera police...
Bill Coate
Nov 17, 2021


The mail had to go through
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society In this photograph taken on May 19, 1938, Madera postmaster E.V. Murphy hands a sack of...
Bill Coate
Nov 13, 2021
Facing a ‘hangman’s fracture’
Victoria Callahan has never climbed the steps to the gallows. She has never had a noose around her neck, but she has been the victim of a...
Bill Coate
Nov 10, 2021


The first to go; the first to die
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society The first six men to be drafted into the Army from Madera in WWI with Herbert Macon,...
Bill Coate
Nov 10, 2021


Chinese autopsy raised a ruckus in Borden
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Yee Chung is shown here with both of his wives. He started the Borden Chinese Cemetery...
Bill Coate
Nov 6, 2021
Miracles without borders
Miracles come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they occur instantaneously, and sometimes they evolve. For Ladislao (Lalo) Lopez, it is...
Bill Coate
Nov 3, 2021


Remembering Judge Crocker
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Madera County Superior Court Judge, M.D. Crocker. Judge Crocker was the county’s 3rd...
Bill Coate
Nov 3, 2021









