A local landlord says the county’s Health and Human Services Agency is at least three months behind on room-and-board payments for some of the mental health patients whose welfare the agency is meant to protect. Three Months Behind (So Far) Barbara Mathis, who operates three room-and-board homes for at-risk mental health patients transitioning from […]
Tulare County Supervisor Pete Vander Poel meets with Chair Avila out of concern for disinterments With issues of litigation, firings, and disinterments facing the Tulare Public Cemetery District (TPCD) tensions were running high between a disgruntled constituency and the trustees. Not surprisingly, 20 minutes into their March 25 meeting, Chair Xavier Avila felt it necessary […]
The Visalia City Council met Monday, March 15, to receive an official presentation from Salt+Light and Self-Help Enterprises on their joint project to create a neighborhood village in Goshen for the chronically homeless. The presentation was met with high praise across the board. But the same cannot be said about Wednesday’s joint city council meeting […]
Xavier Avila has hired the Law Offices of Michael J. Lampe to defend him in a case concerning his holding two allegedly incompatible public offices. Lampe has been notable in his past work around the City of Tulare, including suits against the City of Tulare, Tulare Local Healthcare District, and members of the Tulare City […]
Visalia Unified School District students in grades 7 through 12 will return to their classrooms a week after Tulare County declared it has achieved the state’s COVID-19 red tier designation. In-Person Classes Start March 25 District trustees gave the OK to allow resumption of in-person instruction for secondary students in a unanimous vote Tuesday, […]
There will be no football or water polo programs when Visalia Unified School District students go back to middle- and high-school campuses next week. Making an Emotional Call While the decision to curtail those two sports traditionally practiced in fall came in February, school board members reaffirmed the district’s decision at its March 9 […]
Like a zombie apocalypse movie, the Tulare Public Cemetery District (TPCD) just can’t seem to keep their bodies buried. On March 8 the cemetery disinterred two bodies that had been buried in the wrong graves. This is the latest in a string of misplaced bodies at the cemetery in the last five years. Since 2016, […]
Curtimade Dairy and the City of Corcoran were scheduled to go to court early this year to hear a $65-million lawsuit concerning contaminated water. The city is suing the dairy over damages for allegedly contaminating their municipal wells with nitrates. But now, Corcoran’s attorneys have told the court they are not ready to go to […]
Congressman Devin Nunes’ (R-Tulare) defamation lawsuit against the message service Twitter and one of its users who masquerades as a dairy cow has spawned a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Did the FBI Investigate @DevinCow? A lawsuit filed March 3 in the US District Court in Washington, DC–brought by investigative reporter and […]
Like the first buds of spring, new signs of life are beginning to appear at the partially-complete expansion project at Adventist Health Tulare Hospital. Tower Advisory Committee Formed The Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) this week announced the appointment of five members to an advisory board intended to aid district leaders in finishing […]