Community Services Employment Training (CSET) is recruiting local volunteers to assist with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. VITA provides tax preparation and electronic filing services at no cost to Tulare County households with less than $67,000 annual income. Last season, VITA preparers helped file 3,898 tax returns for low- and moderate-income residents, returning […]
Ready for a lot of fa-la-la-la fun? The City of Visalia Winter Live & Play is here! The City of Visalia Winter 2024 Live & Play guide to Visalia is online now and registration for winter recreation classes, events and programs is now open. A quarterly publication, the Winter 2024 Live & Play features City […]
Do you know a Spanish-speaking adult who wants to learn basic reading or writing in Spanish? Tulare County Library-Read to Succeed Literacy Center now offers Free Spanish literacy classes. LEAMOS (Let’s Read), a simple and easy-to-use pre-English as a Second Language (ESL) online literacy course, teaching Spanish-speaking adults to read and write in Spanish. Consisting […]
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released today a draft regulation of cancer-causing 1,3-dichloropropene (aka 1,3-D, brand name Telone) that addresses only “occupational bystanders” and relies on completely different assumptions of lifetime cancer risk exposure than the law regulating the same pesticide towards children and residents near agricultural fields. The draft has already been received […]
Allegiant announced today new nonstop seasonal service between Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT) and Portland International Airport (PDX) in summer 2025. Operating on Sundays and Thursdays beginning May 22 through mid-August 2025, this new service provided by Allegiant adds more nonstop flight options between FAT and PDX. Visitors to Portland, Oregon can experience the city’s […]
In 1858, when Visalia was about six years old, the tiny settlement welcomed a transportation feature that would transform Visalia, California, and indeed the nation – the Butterfield Overland Stage. The Overland Stage Line would be one of the first successful attempts to connect the East Coast of the United States with the nation’s new […]
Mission has always been what 210 has been about. Just with a cup of joe. But the leadership at First Presbyterian Church in Visalia, which owns 210 W. Center Ave., has decided that its experiment in combining faith, fellowship and a hot cup of java, had become too expensive to continue. Something had to give. […]
Looking for something to do to kick off a beautiful fall weekend? Look no further than Donna Orozco’s Calendar of Events!! Community theater “The Education of Angels” about two angels-in-training who are sent to earth, but not everyone can see them. Runs at Temple Theater, 514 Visalia St., Hanford, from Nov. 1-17. 559 584-7241 or […]
With the vote count across California’s Twenty Second Congressional District nearly complete, it is clear voters have spoken and Congressman David G. Valadao will be reelected to continue serving the Central Valley in Congress. “The Central Valley is my home, and I am once again humbled by the Central Valley’s support and faith in me. […]
The Porterville Barn Theater is thrilled to announce the upcoming production of “Ms. Scrooge”; the story follows Eliza Scrooge, the owner of a fashion design office who has a vicious temper and an extreme dislike for Christmas. Over the course of one Christmas Eve, Eliza is visited by her old partner and three spirits who […]