The City of Tulare will extend a $9m line of credit to the Tulare Local Healthcare District, after a special Tulare City Council meeting on Tuesday night. Mayor Jose Sigala and council member Terry Sayre voted to extend the line of credit to the hospital, with Vice-Mayor Dennis Mederos abstaining. Council member Greg Nunley […]
In a bucolic little corner on the south eastern edge of Porterville exists a piece of Tule River floodplain that has never felt the till of a plow or the heard the hammering of a nail. The place is the Yaudanchi Ecological Reserve (YER.) The reserve is an outdoor classroom for the Porterville public school […]
Presented to the Sierra View Medical Center (SVMC) Board of Directors during their first monthly meeting of the year, the Sierra View Foundation (SVF) donated a $100,000 check for a 4D CT (computerized tomography) Simulator benefitting Sierra View Medical Center’s Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center. On behalf of the Sierra View Foundation, Debbie Landers, […]
Women seeking equality and the men who support them gathered by the hundreds Saturday, January 19, in Visalia’s Oval Park before taking to the streets for the 2019 Women’s March. Change is Needed For Melissa Ledbury of Three Rivers, the reason she joined the march is the same reason women have been protesting for 50 […]
Students in south-eastern Tulare often struggle with academics, but one group of concerned parents are working tirelessly to change that. The Sundale Foundation owns two homes in the East Tulare Villas, a low-income neighborhood just outside of Tulare. They opened the V-Center in 2010 and added the second home four years later. The Foundation uses […]
Temperature restrictions at St. Pauls’ warming Center were lifted last month and the center is now open every night. The decision came after the warming center staff expressed that restricting the shelter to operate on nights below 35 degrees would create confusion among the homeless community who typically don’t have access to thermometers. The uncertainty […]
A hearing was held at Kings County Superior Court Thursday, January 31, to consider granting the City of Lemoore a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against City Council Member Holly Blair. The TRO and Preliminary Injunction were requested by Lemoore City Manager Nathan Olson, Police Chief Darrell Smith, and Assistant Police Chief Margarita Ochoa to prevent […]
It’s been a walk down memory lane over the past two days in a hearing meant to decide the status of Dr. Benny Benzeevi’s seized assets. Through two separate warrants, the Healthcare Conglomerate Associates (HCCA) CEO had $937,000 and various personal items including phones, tablets, laptops, and business documents seized by the Tulare County District […]
Heart patients at Kaweah Delta will now have access to resources from the “world-renowned” Cleveland Clinic thanks to a partnership between Kaweah Delta’s cardio clinic and the nation’s top-ranked heart treatment program, CEO Gary Herbst announced at a press conference Friday, January 25. Cardio Program Gets New Name “Going forward we will be the Kaweah […]
Congressmember Kevin McCarthy, representing the 23rd District, issued the following Press release yesterday. McCarthy on the Deal to Reopen Government and Negotiate Border Security Congressman Kevin McCarthy released the following statement on the deal President Trump made to reopen the government: “Congressional Democrats have said ‘no’ to commonsense border security that would protect the American people. […]