Kings County is poised to open up late Friday afternoon while Tulare County might lag one or two weeks behind. Keenly aware of the pain suffered by local businesses, and the county’s dire economic outlook, Kings County Supervisors are holding an emergency meeting Friday at 1pm to approve the documents needed to open up their […]
Anyone who has suffered the pain of losing a loved one during the corona virus has also had to go through the pain of not being able to have a traditional funeral or graveside service. To cope, many families have postponed the funeral. But bodies can’t wait until the country decides to open up to […]
As of April 25, Ruiz Foods in Dinuba had 18 employees test positive for the novel coronavirus. The current number of effected employees could not be confirmed. Dinuba has been a relative hotspot in Tulare County, considering its small population of 24,000. According to the Tulare County Health and Human Services website, there are a […]
The Tulare Public Cemetery District held an in-person meeting April 23 at its district office. The meeting took place despite the fact that two trustees and some members of the public requested that the meeting be canceled unless the district provided for remote participation. With the board members sitting under an outside arbor at separate […]
Dr. Rick Bright, who was removed as head of the federal agency that is helping develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, said he was ousted after resisting widespread adoption of hydroxychloroquine, a drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19. Dr. Bright released the following statement today. “Yesterday, I was removed from […]
To comply with state and local stay at home orders, every public meeting in Tulare County has been held online or canceled. Smaller public boards such as irrigation districts or cemeteries are only required to meet once a quarter and many of those have rescheduled their meetings to June. Not the Tulare Public Cemetery District. […]
Bubble Baths in the Time of COVID We are Month One into what could be a two- or three-month shutdown of our normal lives. Publishing the Valley Voice makes my life run in two-week cycles. But about four times a year, the dates hit just right and we get a three-week break between issues. That’s […]
Bishop Ronald Abbott, spiritual leader of Abundant Life Church in Tulare, passed away this morning at age 72 from COVID – 19 at Kaweah Delta hospital. Because of the no visitors policy his family was not able to be with him when he passed. The nursing staff taking care of Abbott in the ICU facilitated […]
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine today updated its numbers and again reduced the number of projected deaths and number of days before the country flattens the curve. The University of Washington now predicts the United States will peak April 12 instead of the previously projected […]
The University of Washington’s Institute of Health has updated its numbers concerning the impact of COVID- 19 on the nation and California, and it is very good news. The University of Washington’s COVID-19 projections, assuming full social distancing through May, is predicting the number of cases nationally will peak April 15. The peak was previously […]