Family HealthCare Network (FHCN) announced that it has selected three high school seniors, two college students and a FHCN employee headed to medical school as the 2014 Anita de la Vega Scholarship recipients. FHCN established the scholarship in 2009 to honor the memory of Anita de la Vega, a clinician with the network for 30 […]
Woodlake Union High School junior Natalia Frias is in her art class working on a painting of a girl. The girl is “an average girl, an odd girl,” says Natalia. “She has problems connecting with others, so she turns to social media.” In the painting, the girl is crying out, the computer mouse is wrapped […]
The 11th Annual Slick Rock Student Film Festival – Central California’s largest student film competition – is scheduled for Saturday, May 17, at the Fox Theatre in Downtown Visalia. This year, the festival received more than 400 film entries. The high school films receiving a “Premiere Cut” designation will be screened continuously at the theater […]
The Kiwanis Club of Farmersville, with the support of the City of Farmersville and members of the community, will be sponsoring Farmersville’s 60th Diamond Anniversary Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 26. This is the only Memorial Day parade held in Tulare County and is the longest-running event in the city. In fact, it has […]
Momentum Broadcasting’s KJUG 106.7 FM will host JugFest, the Central Valley’s largest country music festival, on Saturday, May 31, gates open at 1pm, show starts at 3pm and runs until – 10pm at Plaza Park in Visalia. In its eighth year, the free country music festival is boasting the best lineup in its history. KJUG […]
Aid and Attendance is a special monthly pension benefit available to wartime veterans and surviving spouses of deceased wartime veterans who have in-home care, or who live in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities. The basic criteria for the Aid and Attendance benefit include the inability to feed oneself, to dress and undress without assistance, or […]
The California State Society Daughters of the American Revolution (CSSDAR) is recognizing a representative group that helped with the development and growth of our nation, state and local communities, by placing a DAR Historical Marker at the Chinese School in Hanford on Saturday, June 7. In California, the primary influence of the Chinese began in […]
Registration is now open for Porterville College Foundation’s S.M.A.R.T. Lab (Science, Mathematics and Resource Technology) program. Multiple three-day sessions are being offered June 2-5 or 9-12, July 7-10 or 28-31. These sessions focus on life, physical and earth science for kids, grades 4-6. June sessions will take place from 7:30am to 12:30pm. Cost is $20 […]
Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway, of Tulare, released the following statement on Monday about the swearing-in of San Diego Assemblywoman Toni Atkins as the 69th Speaker of the California Assembly: “Today, California witnessed something that has happened only twice before in our state’s history – the swearing-in of a woman as the Speaker of the […]
Tulare County currently has funding available to plug and cap private unused wells within the boundaries of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District. There is no cost to the property owner to participate in the abandoned well program, and all work will be completed by a licensed contractor. The county is currently working with Self-Help […]