Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Representatives from both Doors of Hope and the Madera Rescue Mission gather with Madera Mayor Cece Gallegos for a photo during a Doors of Hope’s 23rd Anniversary Celebration on May 2. Doors of Hope Parenting & Pregnancy Resource Center held an anniversary event outside their facility on May 2 to celebrate 23 years of service to the community of Madera and surrounding areas. Founded in May 2005 by Linda Garner, the non-profit, life affirmin

For The Madera Tribune Carles and Georgia Beckett on their wedding day. It was four in the morning, July 17, 1954, when the woman crumpled to the floor. Her sobbing woke her four children; in an instant they joined her, brokenhearted and weeping uncontrollably. The policeman standing over them watched helplessly. He had just told the Beckett family that their father and husband would not be coming home. He had been killed earlier that day in an automobile crash. The grieving,

Every time I go biking or walking around my area in Bass Lake, I have to live through the decay of each street, of what used to be a place much like Oakhurst; a hub for people to live at. My hands itch from vibrations, not from allergies; the roads are in almost complete ruin. The original 1940s infrastructure is slowly wasting away into oblivion. These old houses that people remember are either becoming a “Jenga” style of rebuilding, or just wasting away. So many people left

Tension was in the air in Madera in 1947. The long-standing exclusion of African-Americans from the City’s swimming pool was being challenged, and the integration attempts weren’t setting well with some of the town’s power brokers, especially the publisher of the Madera Tribune. Howard Clark, whose father had founded the paper in 1892, took umbrage at what he was calling outside interference that sought to upset the “natural tendency toward segregation” of the races, especial

County Clerk-Recorder & Registrar of Voters announced that a Statewide Direct Primary Election will be held in Madera County, on June 2. The following is a list of Vote Centers and Drop Box locations that will be available to serve you, for the hours specified below, between May 4, and Election Day, June 2. Vote centers • Madera County Government Center, Lobby, 200 W. 4th Street and Oakhurst Community Center, Main Hall, 39800 Road 425B. Open May 23 to June 1, from 8 a.m. to

I grew up in Madera, spending many summer days at what we knew as “Swimming Pool Park.” While I no longer live in the city, I still follow local news and care deeply about Madera’s future. Recent news regarding the continued closure of Centennial Pool prompts a vital question: Are Madera’s aquatic facilities adequate for a city of its size, climate, and growth? The municipal pool serving residents today traces its origins to an era when Madera was a town of just a few thousan

AAUW will hold its annual 5K run and 2-mile walk at 8 a.m., May 9, at Cedar Creek, 500 N. Westberry in Madera. Money earned from the event goes to scholarships for graduating seniors from local high schools in Madera and Liberty High School, as well as a scholarship for a student at Madera Community College. AAUW also sends female students, who will be 8th graders in the fall, to Fresno State for five days and four nights to be exposed to STEM activities and college life. You

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Motorists travel through the flooded intersection of Cleveland and Schnoor avenues on Tuesday. For about an hour earlier this week, Madera residents saw the dark clouds rolling in. Then rain and hail fell for about an hour, dropping almost 1.5 inches of rain in one day. Tuesday’s storm dropped 1.42 inches of rain, which annihilated the previous April 21 record of 0.40 inches. “It was a pretty packed bunch of rain that came through in a span