Despite excellent results from a voluntary water conservation program already in place, harsher measures and stiffer fines could be on the way for water users in Lindsay. At a meeting of the City Council on August 11, the foundation was laid for adding two sections to the city’s plan to conserve water. The effort is […]
As if the drought weren’t bad enough, water users in and around Visalia may soon be paying more at the tap. California Water Service, in paperwork filed with the state’s Public Utility Commission, is proposing a series of rate increases starting in 2017 that would see its customers paying $6.79 more each month by 2019. […]
Daniel Lawrence spent a year living on the streets of Tulare, and what he experienced is helping drive a movement to protect the rights of indigent people in the South Valley. The Union of Hope, a newly-formed group championing the plight of the homeless, hopes to become both a guardian of their rights and see […]
The fate of the undeveloped portion of Hidden Valley Park remains in limbo following a 4-3 finding by the Hanford Planning Commission that the land is not surplus. With the city short on funds needed to construct a new fire station, the city council has been again mulling selling 18.1 acres of open land adjoining […]
Before settling in to hear from representatives of local agencies pulling for the construction of the California High-Speed Rail (HSR) project, the Hanford City Council got an earful of local opinion on the matter from both sides. The HSR project includes a 27-mile stretch through Kings County and has met with some vocal resistance locally, […]
After it failed to reach agreement at its July 7 meeting, a divided Hanford City Council will have to take a second look at how the city will honor its agreement with developers to split future sales tax income from the upcoming Costco. The city initially agreed to reduce developer and impact fees to the […]
The Lindsay City Council may have held its shortest meeting ever when it met to discuss appointing an interim city manager on July 6. After a brief pause to take public comments at the afternoon special meeting held at the Community Development Conference Room — there were none — the council adjourned for an executive […]
From a small plot of land on the edge of Tulare, Danny Ochoa Leon is trying to change the world, or at least the way people work together. Fed up with the growing inequity in our modern lives and the widening distance between neighbors, Leon is working on a new way of doing things, a […]
The political disquiet continues to deepen in Lindsay, with residents now asking for a Grand Jury investigation of city council action in the wake of the resignation of city manager and public safety chief Rich Wilkinson in June. The current upset began in August of 2014, when fired Lindsay police lieutenant Bryan Clower filed a […]