The County of Tulare was recently awarded $175,000 of grant funding through the 2022 CAL FIRE County Coordinator Southern Region Grant Program by the California Fire Safe Council (CFSC). CFSC’s mission is to be a California leader in community wildfire risk reduction and resiliency. The funding will support CFSC continued mission in partnership with the […]
Tulare County Farm Bureau will award the signature blue corduroy FFA jacket to local students through the Blue Jacket Bonanza program. Launched in 2012, Blue Jacket Bonanza was developed to provide area students involved in FFA, who may not have the financial means, a chance to earn their own uniform jacket. Today many chapters in […]
Walnut farmers are tearing out older trees and less desirable varieties as the price for the nut has plummeted well below the cost of production, causing some growers to rethink walnuts and look for alternative crops. “I’ve seen several younger orchards that have come out already in Fresno, Merced and Madera counties,” said Kings County […]
Thanks to a series of winter storms that quenched the state in December and early January, the California Department of Water Resources last week announced that the State Water Project may deliver 30% of requested supplies. The allocation is up from the initial 5% announced in December. It means that some 1.27 million acre-feet of […]
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) will deliver the Republican Address to the Nation from Little Rock, Arkansas following the State of the Union address next Tuesday, February 7th: Speaker McCarthy said: “Americans are still struggling from inflation, a border […]
On Thursday, Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-22) joined Congressman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) to introduce the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act. Chinese ownership of domestic agricultural land has increased from $81 million in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The large-scale […]
Registration is now open for the 2023 Social-Emotional Learning Summit, which will be held Saturday, May 6 at the Clemmie Gill School of Science and Conservation (SCICON) in Springville. The summit will be held from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Registration is sponsored by CalHOPE. There is a materials fee of $65 that includes a […]
Wednesday morning, Tulare’s St. Aloysius School, a Catholic school offering faith-based education to students in grades junior kindergarten through eight, hosted local community leaders on campus in honor of Catholic Schools Week, a national celebration of Catholic education and an opportunity to recognize the importance, the value, and the contributions Catholic schools make to the […]
If you drive along every street or alley in Visalia east of Mooney Blvd from as far north as Ferguson to as far south as Walnut, you will not find any debris, trash, graffiti or abandoned items. And, if you do, it may be gone the very next day! It is not because of the […]
On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, seven teams of volunteers canvassed the city to survey each unhoused person who wished to participate in the Annual Point In Time (PIT) Count. Every year, agencies nationwide undertake a PIT Count to assess the number of individuals experiencing homelessness, including in the city of Porterville. Locally, the census is […]