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Bill Coate
Years ago in Madera during the week of April 2
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society The agony of defeat — Pablo Jara covered his face in disgust 25 years ago after losing...
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Bill Coate
Years ago in Madera during the week of March 26
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Twenty-five years ago, television newscaster Rudy Trevino moderated a student forum on...
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Bill Coate
Madera’s notorious ‘suicide’
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society The Southern Hotel, shown in this 1905 photograph, near the corner of B Street and...
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Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of March 19
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Twenty-five years ago, Al Cheng, president of the Chinese Historical Society of America,...
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Bill Coate
Cook, killer both lived in Coarsegold
Courtesy of Madera County Historical Society By 1880, this grizzled old miner, who was known as Alapoleno, as well as Santa Claus, was...
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Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of March 12
Madera Tribune File Photo 25 years ago, Washington School second grade teacher Frances Brown wished her student, Michael Wall, a “top o’...