

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...
Bill Coate
Mar 29, 2017


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...
Bill Coate
Mar 28, 2017


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,...
Bill Coate
Mar 22, 2017


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...
Bill Coate
Mar 21, 2017


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’...
Bill Coate
Mar 15, 2017
Missing Coarsegold teen found dead in pond
Madera County Sheriff’s divers found the body of a missing 16-year-old Coarsegold girl today in the driver’s seat of her car, which was...
The Madera Tribune
Mar 11, 2017


Years ago in the week of March 5
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Local pickets carried these signs 50 years ago in front of the Madera County Government...
Bill Coate
Mar 8, 2017


Taking another look at a lynching
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society S.W. Westfall served two terms as Madera County sheriff. He spent the better part of his...
Bill Coate
Mar 6, 2017









