Charlie Ramos, a Tulare Public Cemetery District trustee, accused the district’s former office manager Leonor Castaneda of committing a felony in an April 12 report filed with the Tulare Police Department. The police department’s report states that Castaneda did not act alone. According to Castaneda and other witnesses, TPCD Chair Xavier Avila also participated in […]
Phil Smith will transition from a Tulare Local Healthcare District board member to the district’s new CEO, after his fellow board members voted 3-0 to appoint him as a replacement to Sandra Ormonde. Smith recused himself from the selection, and the seat previously held by Senovia Gutierrez was empty after her resignation and temporary relocation […]
The Hanford City Council conducted one of its most consequential meetings on November 2, making sweeping decisions that will change the course of the city. The council voted to annex seven city islands, abolish a zoning ordinance criticized as archaic, and reverse the zoning on an undeveloped 18 acre patch of Hidden Valley Park from […]
Editors Note: The Valley Voice has just been informed today, November 2, that the Golden State Insurance policy has not been signed and will not go into effect until November 11, 2021. After being dropped by their insurer, the Tulare Public Cemetery District voted on October 28 to accept a new insurance policy offered by […]
Multiple swastika symbols carved into a tree at Porterville’s Santa Fe Elementary and a sidewalk on West Henderson Ave. have been removed after Porterville residents alerted local officials. In both instances, residents claim the swastikas have been present for years. At Santa Fe Elementary School, two swastikas were carved into a tree in a high […]
Area historians gathered with excitement on Tuesday as a team of Tehachapi-based archaeologists surveyed Visalia’s Old Lumberyard on Oak and Garden streets with Ground-Penetrating Radar equipment (GPR.) Self Help Enterprises is due to tear down the lumberyard in order to build The Lofts at Fort Visalia, an affordable housing complex. The Visalia City Council requested […]
Keith Fagundes, the Kings County District Attorney, filed a Writ of Mandate on October 4 demanding the county cease a pattern of allegedly retaliatory behavior against him. He claims in the petition that the behavior has been ongoing since the county was threatened with a lawsuit in July. Robert Waggle has alleged that Fagundes repeatedly […]
When Governor Gavin Newsom beat Republican challenger John Cox in 2018, it was considered a landslide. On September 14, Newsom won a recall election by an even larger margin. At $300 million, was the recall worth the price? “It was absolutely worth it,” said Ellen Woitalla, a recall organizer for the Central Valley. “This isn’t […]
The Tulare Public Cemetery District (TPCD) is searching for a new insurer: the district’s office manager told trustees that the district’s insurance would be cancelled August 31 — earlier than the contract’s end date — and later negotiated with the insurer to allow the policy to end on October 1. The insurer, Allied World Specialty […]
Lemoore Union High School child psychologist, Christian D. Loeffler, was arrested last week for soliciting a minor for sex. According to a press release from the Kings County Sheriff’s Department during the operation law enforcement officials from Kings County Sheriff’s Office, Hanford Police Department, Lemoore Police Department, and Kings County District Attorney’s Office, posed as […]