The 21st Congressional District encompasses all of Kings County, a small portion of Tulare County and parts of Fresno and Kern counties as well. While candidates David Valadao, the incumbent, who is a Republican from Hanford, and Emilio Huerta, the challenger, who is a Democrat from Bakersfield, are members of opposing parties, they have mutual […]
The 21st Congressional District encompasses all of Kings County, a small portion of Tulare County and parts of Fresno and Kern counties as well. While candidates David Valadao, the incumbent, who is a Republican from Hanford, and Emilio Huerta, the challenger, who is a Democrat from Bakersfield, are members of opposing parties, they have mutual […]
Kuyler Crocker, 29, is one of the two remaining candidates vying for the District 1 seat on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors. He and Dennis Smith will contend in a runoff election November 8. Though he won’t turn 30 until December of this year, Kuyler Crocker thinks he’s the right man to fill the […]
Dennis Smith, 64, is one of the two remaining candidates vying for the District 1 seat on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors. He and Kuyler Crocker will contend in a runoff election November 8. In the June general election, Smith received 21.56% of the votes; Crocker received 19.11%. District 1 covers central Tulare County […]
Anyone who knows Roger Hurick, knows he likes kids. Just speak with him for five minutes, you’ll catch it, too! He enjoys mentoring, and that is part of what he does at work, where often teens are having their first taste in the work force at Visalia’s Adventure Park, where Hurick is manager and general […]
In 1976, a legacy began at Mt. Whitney High. The year America celebrated its bicentennial was also the year Brenda Burke began teaching home economics part-time on the Visalia campus. Her husband Robert’s hard-to-get full-time teaching job at the city’s school for at-risk students, Sequoia High, had brought the freshly graduated newlyweds to town. They […]
If you’ve switched on a radio in the Central Valley during the last five decades, there’s a good chance you’ve heard Kent Hopper’s voice. It’s deep, mellow and resonant–a lot like the man who owns it. These days, Hopper, 66, is headman at KTIP in Porterville, a 24-hour news and talk station broadcasting at 1450 […]
Despite the labor undertaken by Tom Marshall to make the Three Rivers Historical Museum a roadside attraction worth seeing, to craft a stop satisfying enough visitors don’t feel cheated for whiling away part of their too-short vacation wandering among its crowded collection of Wild West antiquities, he really isn’t all that interested in history. A […]
From a Nebraska farm to Tulare County Ag Commissioner, Marilyn Kinoshita’s life has always involved agriculture, and probably always will. “I was the youngest and my mom did half the farming,” she said. “She was a product of farming parents, as my dad was, so at a young age back in the ‘20s, ‘30s and […]
Although she’s a stand-up comedian, Amy Shuklian takes her day jobs very seriously. The Visalia City Council member is also a recreation therapist, who works in Kaweah Delta’s rehab center on Akers. And, while serious about her work, she finds that the use of comedy is helpful in many situations. The South Valley native was […]