After the Friends of Hidden Valley Park pounded the pavement for two weeks collecting signatures for a city-wide referendum, staff with the City of Hanford have rejected their petitions. “Based on my two findings I hereby reject the entire Referendum Petition as not being sufficient,” Jennifer Gomez, the Hanford City Clerk, told the group on […]
Visalia, Farmersville and Exeter staff continue to work together in order to create the best possible public transportation options for their citizens. Visalia Transit has some changes coming to bus lines beginning in July. The public comment period has been extended through August 18 – leaving some changes to not be implemented until the first […]
Tulare’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) will give Colony Energy a third break on the rent for its 20-year lease of city land but wont reopen negotiations to sell the company gas collected at the city’s waste treatment facility. Representatives of Colony have called the gas purchase essential to getting their larger project–a $25 million […]
A civil suit filed by Mary Bryant, founder of The Real Mooney Grove Project, against the County of Tulare was dismissed during a hearing May 25. Tulare County Superior Court Judge David Mathias dismissed all causes of actions but left the door open for her to re-file. Bryant’s suit accused the county of mismanagement in […]
The city of Visalia will pay an undisclosed amount to the survivors of two men killed by police in October of 2012 to settle a federal wrongful death suit. Late on the night of October 26, 2012, 19-year-old Eduardo Maduena and 22-year-old Ruben Molina, both Earlimart residents, were shot to death in a dirt field […]
A vocal group of Hanford advocates for Hidden Valley Park are keeping their promise. During the April 24 Hanford City Council meeting the council passed a new zoning ordinance that changed the designation of the undeveloped 18 acres of the park from public facilities to low-density residential. Because of the zoning change the group promised a […]
A group of Hanford residents has filed recall papers against Hanford City Council Member Francisco Ramirez. The group has 90 days from May 19 to collect 800 signatures in district D. Ramirez was elected in November of 2014. Hanford resident Skip Athey served Ramirez recall papers before the city council meeting started on May 16. […]
Attorneys for Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) are back in court as the trial between the hospital and its former medical executive committee (MEC) continues in its second week – after nearly a month’s break. Lawyers for the former MEC and medical staff claim that the move to replace them was unlawful and retaliatory, while […]
Tulare Regional Medical Center’s first full medical staff election is underway, the Tulare Local Healthcare District Board of Directors were told Wednesday. Dr. Ronald Ostrom, the chief of staff for TRMC’s current medical executive committee, hailed the election as the first in which all members of the medical staff were able to vote during his […]
Congressman Devin Nunes may be in some seriously hot water. With an ethics probe looking into his handling of classified documents, calls for him to resign his position as Intel Committee chair from both sides of the aisle, and cries from constituents for his attention, Nunes has gone quiet. That roaring silence is leading to […]