

Memories of the Madera Method—a birthday present
For The Madera Tribune The sixth grade class at Howard School is shown here in 1985, after they completed their class project, The...
Bill Coate
Dec 21, 2022
Opinion: Christmas is drawing nigh
Christmas time, Christmas time, fa-la-la-la-la-la… Online Christmas shopping brings nearly all the shops in the world to the experience....
Tami Jo Nix
Dec 17, 2022
Opinion: Hanukkah begins; hate escalates
Hanukkah, the eight days and nights during which Jewish people celebrate the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem, begins tomorrow,...
Jim Glynn
Dec 17, 2022


Madera had the longest flume
For The Madera Tribune This lumber flume built by the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company was exactly 65.9 miles long, according to the...
Bill Coate
Dec 14, 2022
Opinion: Toys under the tree
Remember the first Christmas when all your presents under the Christmas Tree were clothing? My cousin Kary and I were talking, and she...
Tami Jo Nix
Dec 10, 2022


Madera anglers win international tournament
Courtesy of David Vargas Madera fishermen, from left, Shane Evans, David Rossi, the Madera fishermen’s boat captain, Clay Salters and...
For The Madera Tribune
Dec 8, 2022
Book Talk: Jessica Goodman, ‘The Counselors’
I flat-out love Jessica Goodman. She is to today’s wealthy and pampered teenaged girls what J.D. Salinger was to Holden Caulfield,...
Jim Glynn
Dec 7, 2022


Dr. Ransom helped keep Arcola alive
For The Madera Tribune Arcola School in 1926. “I always look back upon the days I spent in Arcola School as among the happiest and most...
Bill Coate
Dec 4, 2022









