Fitch Ratings, which has provided independent and prospective credit ratings for 100 years, has downgraded to ‘B’ from ‘B+’ the rating on $15,230,000 series 2007 fixed rate bonds issued by the Tulare Local Health Care District, doing business as Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC). The bonds have been placed on Rating Watch Negative. Tulare Regional […]
ImagineU Children’s Museum will host “Masquerade,” its second Dreambuilder’s Bash, on Saturday, March 8, at 5:30pm at the Visalia Convention Center. The evening will include interactive entertainment, a silent and live auction and a Cajun dinner provided by the Vintage Press. The event will support the museum’s educational activities, crafts and events. Attire is “creative […]
The Central Valley Woodie Club, the local chapter of the National Woodie Club, has scheduled its eighth annual “Woodies in the Valley” event for March 7-9 in Visalia. “This is not an ordinary car show,” explains Club President Wayne Yada. “It is limited to only wooden-bodied cars, which were only made in this country from […]
The Lindsay Theater will welcome country music legend Lacy J. Dalton and her group, the Dalton Gang, to the South Valley at 7:30pm on Saturday, March 15, as a part of its concert series. Dalton’s music is a product of her wide-ranging musical tastes. Her early influences were the classic country music of the ’40s, […]
Boyz II Men will take the stage at Tachi Palace in Lemoore on Thursday, March 20, for a 7:30pm show. The trio is known for such hits as “I’ll Make Love to You,” “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” Motownphilly” and “End of the Road.” Boyz II Men’s clean-cut “retro nouveau” image, synchronized […]
The Sixth Annual Visalia Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament to benefit Leadership Visalia will be held at Valley Oaks Golf Course on Friday, March 21. Leadership Visalia is the chamber’s business leadership development course, designed to benefit participants as well as the community. Leadership Visalia was started in 1986. The four-person scramble begins with a […]
The Pentagon’s budget proposal for next year was announced last week by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. In an interview with The New York Times, Hagel argued that to meet today’s national security needs, the Department of Defense (DoD) must shift its focus and capabilities away from “fighting grinding ground conflicts” and towards “new arenas […]
When Lost In The Trees – who will perform at the Cellar Door in downtown Visalia on Friday, March 21 – set out to record Past Life, their third album for ANTI-, they knew they needed a break with the past. Frontman Ari Picker looked to move beyond the themes of loss that fueled two […]
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that nearly 1.7 million visitors to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in 2012 spent over $123 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,541 jobs in the local area. “Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is proud to welcome visitors from across the country […]
Don Tillman is an exacting and highly intelligent genetics professor who decides that he would like to find a wife. The main deterrent in his quest also happens to be his greatest charm: Don is awkward, uncomfortable with social conventions, and unable to navigate many interactions with finesse. Right off the bat, the reader falls […]