Hanford Environmental Action Team (HEAT) won its case against the City of Hanford concerning the Bajun American Properties housing development. HEAT appealed the city’s decision to approve the development’s site plans without an Environmental Impact Review (EIR). The judge decided in a September 22 hearing that HEAT would be given 10 more days from the […]
Hanford is getting a much-needed new fire station and part of Hidden Valley Park will not have to be sold to fund it. At a study session held September 15, Hanford City Council directed its staff to put together a construction plan for a third station the fire department needs to decrease its response times. Construction […]
More bike lanes and better walking conditions may be in the future for some areas of the county with the Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG) moving into the second phase of its planning project, Walk ‘n Bike Tulare County. Last June, TCAG adopted a new plan to seek transportation funding for cities and around […]
For most East Porterville residents, more permanent solutions to their water woes cannot come soon enough. However, it may not come very soon, or at least until there is a good amount of rain. For many, their wells have gone dry. Several homes now rely on potable water deliver to their temporary tanks for showers […]
Life hasn’t settled down for Jonathan Smith, or his father Michael Koonce, since Smith’s arrest and alleged beating by the Tulare Police Department on August 25. On that morning, Smith had an altercation with the Tulare Police Department in the parking lot of Feltech Auto Repair. According to Smith and a witness, he was pulled […]
With the city facing a major deficit with no way to cover the gap, the Lindsay City Council is considering a gamble that could see them clear of red ink. Facing budget shortfalls on the order of $450,000 annually for the foreseeable future, the city has already been forced to send home its workforce two […]
A 300,000-square-foot cheese factory finally has the go-ahead for construction in Tulare after clearing a final hurdle in a years-long approval process. At its August 18 meeting, the Tulare City Council OK’d the sale of a 59-acre plot at the corner of Paige Avenue and Enterprise Street, adjacent to the city waste-water treatment plant. Purchasing […]
Jonathan Smith, a longtime resident of Tulare, left his home Tuesday morning, August 25, to cash a check and stop at the hardware store. But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank. His twenty minute errand turned into a seventeen-hour ordeal and he didn’t make it home again until 2:30am the next […]
It was a full house at Hanford’s City Council meeting on September 1. The crowd was a mix of angry residents over the actions of their mayor and the council considering selling part of Hidden Valley Park. The meeting started with Mayor Russ Curry apologizing to the council and community for reading four letters into […]
A crowd of angry city employees and citizens filled the chambers of the Lindsay City Council to overflowing on August 25, as workers came to air their upset over a hastily enacted furlough program and the city’s residents reacted with dismay to the possibility of paying more for city services. Facing a cash-flow crisis following […]