In April, the Visalia City Council adopted Stage 4 water restrictions in response to the most significant drought in generations, faced not only our city, but the entire state. And, you have made a difference! Since the Stage 4 water restrictions took effect April 17, Visalians have conserved an average of 12% from April through […]
The Visalia Police Department has been named the winner of the California Law Enforcement Challenge Award, which is sponsored by the California Highway Patrol in partnership with the California Office of Traffic Safety and the California Office of Alcohol Beverage Control. The California Law Enforcement Challenge is a competition between similar sized and types of […]
The longest running annual food tasting event in the Central Valley, the 21st Annual Taste of Downtown Visalia, will be held from 5-9pm on Tuesday, October 7. Downtown Visalia’s eclectic family of restaurants will open their doors and offer a taste of their new menu items or fan favorites. A ticket allows guests to sample […]
Kaweah Delta Health Care District and members of its medical staff will present physician, historian and prize-winning author Victoria Sweet on Thursday, October 16, at the 2014 Norman Sharrer Symposium at the Visalia Fox Theatre. Dr. Sweet, author of God’s Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, will discuss […]
“Stop Supervisor’s raises! Deliver the water!” Virginia Gurrola, candidate for the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, told supporters at a meet-and-greet event in Downtown Visalia last week. “My election is not about me. It’s about you. It’s about you finally having a voice on the board of supervisors.” Gurrola is running to represent the 5th […]
The draft of the Matheny Transportation Infrastructure Plan is now available for public review and comment through October 24. The plan is online at www.tularecounty.ca.gov/rma/index.cfm/whats-going-on/matheny-tract-transportation-infrastructure-plan/. Printed copies will be available for review at the Tulare Public Library, 475 N. M St., Tulare; Palo Verde Elementary School, 9637 Ave. 196; Tulare County Resource Management Agency, 5961 […]
One of the busiest months of racing in recent memory at the Merle Stone Chevrolet Thunderbowl Raceway kicks off with the second annual Harry Talbot Memorial, featuring Winged 360 Sprint Cars, on Saturday, October 4. The night of competition pays tribute to Harry Talbot, who was very instrumental at the Thunderbowl Raceway and who passed […]
Author Karl Marlantes will be at the Visalia Veterans Memorial Building at 10:30am on Thursday, October 9, to discuss his book What it is Like to Go to War and to answer questions. Marlantes is a Vietnam veteran, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of the New York Times best-selling novel Matterhorn. What it is […]
The Cowboy Cultural Committee will present its Annual Fall Roundup, featuring cowboy poetry and music by Riders in the Sky, Chris Isaacs and Kristyn Harris, at Clarence Ritchie’s Barn, 16338 Ave, 308, Visalia, October 10-12. The Cowboy Cultural Committee was the brainchild of Lani Hernandez of Visalia, and each year the event seems to grow […]
In May of this year–in what may prove to be a national trend–Goodwill Industries opened their first in a number of considered concept stores: an experiential electronic store in Charlotte, N.C., called The GRID, carrying a huge variety of electronic and video game goods at 15 to 65% of retail prices – freeing 200 million […]