Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Al Barsotti is shown here when he was Mayor of Madera. In 1953, Barsotti gave a...

Well, after 20 years, the U.S. is finally pulling out of Afghanistan. Thus far our country has spent at least $6.4 Trillion on war in the...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Dow Harvey Ransom, M.D.,1880-1946. One of Madera’s most productive generations was made...

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune The family of Manuel DaCosta from left, Sally Sepulveda, Gladys Deniz, Cheryl and Gordon Fischer and...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Herbert Macon is shown here sitting on his father, Horace Macon’s, knee. His mother,...

The official first day of summer, the Summer Equinox is June 21st. However, in the USA, conventional wisdom says Memorial Day weekend is...

MaxMahem, Wikimedia Commons If you are entertaining guests, a fresh spinach salad with red, white and blue additions, is sure to be...

I neglected to mention that Saturday last should have been my brother, Rocky Hill’s, 72nd birthday. He has been gone almost an entire...