Opinion: At last, someone slows wildland development
For decades, it’s been a truism of California life and politics: The more development pushes out into formerly wild lands, the more...
Tom Elias
Feb 23, 2022
Book Talk: A death in the Alps
Catherine Cooper’s “The Chalet” (2020, 390 pages in paperback) is a debut novel set in La Madiere, a skiing resort in the French Alps....
Jim Glynn
Feb 23, 2022
Opinion: Coldish weather on the horizon
Congratulations are in order, Madera native Simone Eddings of is the proud mommy of a bouncing baby girl, Maddox Marie. Born Feb. 16, she...
Tami Jo Nix
Feb 19, 2022
Multi-vehicle crash results in fatality
California Highway Patrol officers responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Road 27 at Avenue 17 that resulted in a one fatality. The Merced...
For The Madera Tribune
Feb 13, 2022


Celebrating Wendy’s departure
For The Madera Tribune Wendy Beckett Manzo. Last Saturday several hundred folks gathered at Peoples Church in Fresno to join Georgia and...
Bill Coate
Feb 9, 2022


Wendy’s ultimate miracle
For The Madera Tribune Wendy Beckett Manzo. Wendy Ruth Beckett Manzo — her life story represents a series of miracles, but on the evening...
Bill Coate
Feb 2, 2022
Opinion: Living life alone
It has been a hard week. In case you haven’t heard, my husband Fred G. Nix died on Monday. I know some people prefer terms like passed on...
Tami Jo Nix
Jan 29, 2022


‘The Blood of Emmett Till’
For The Madera Tribune Mamie Till-Bradley looks on with anguish at the mutilated body of her son, Emmett Till after his funeral in 1955....
Bill Coate
Jan 22, 2022









