

History in the Week of May 6
Madera County Historical Society Fifty years ago, Willis Petty, retired treasurer of Madera County, died. Before his terms of public...
Bill Coate
May 9, 2018
Manson’s memory should be unforgotten
“Never again” is a common slogan popping up appropriately during Holocaust remembrance observances and after repeated fatal shootings in...
Tom Elias
May 9, 2018


70-year-old lawman first to lay down his life
Madera County Historical Society When Bernard (Barney) McCluskey was shot in 1919, he became the first Madera police officer to lose his...
Bill Coate
May 5, 2018


History in the Week of April 29
Madera County Historical Society One hundred years ago, Tighe’s Department Store was at the center of Madera’s downtown business...
Bill Coate
May 2, 2018
Let’s see ... comparing Randa Jarrar and Barbara Bush
A person whose accomplishments have been few and far between showed earlier this month that if her brains were dynamite, she wouldn’t...
Chuck Doud
Apr 28, 2018


Lawyer Bruce F. Kennedy dies at 77
Tami Jo Nix/The Madera Tribune Theresa and Bruce Kennedy, playing host at their annual St. Patrick’s Day party last year at Ristorante...
Tami Jo Nix
Apr 27, 2018
Documenting terror: Lynching memorial opens
In the American criminal justice system, wealth — not culpability — shapes outcomes. Indigent people are unfairly disadvantaged at every...
Jim Glynn
Apr 27, 2018


Dead man walking in Madera
Madera County Historical Society Soldiers line up for drill at Camp Kearny during World War I. The Army sent Frank Pira here in June...
Bill Coate
Apr 27, 2018









