Whitney, Wikimedia Commons Banana breads fresh from the oven are a wonderful treat on a Fall day. When my youngest son was very small, he went through a period during which he refused to eat vegetables. I resorted to baking quick breads, using all the spices that usually go along with them, such as cinnamon, allspice, etc. I bought strained, pureed vegetables in the baby food section of the grocery stores, including yams or sweet potatoes, spinach, green beans, carrots and ot

For The Madera Tribune The Brown house on Yosemite Ave. in 1920. Although I am not anxious to go there permanently, I do love to visit Arbor Vitae Cemetery. Not only is it beautiful, it is the final resting place of so many folks whom I have met through the years while doing research for this column.  Just the other day, I went out to stroll up and down the rows looking for my friends from the past. First there was Dr. Joseph Borden and Levin Sledge, two members of the Alabam

Courtesy of Madera Unified School District A computer rendering of the completed Memorial Stadium after an 18-month modernization that...

Angel L. de Jesus Jr./The Madera Tribune With vacancies made by their predecessors, from left, Richard Galindo, Matthew Treber, and...

Madera County Sheriff’s Office, with the support of the United States Marshals Service, executed a search warrant at a residence on...

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