Will Tulare County melt into a cauldron of chaos in the event of a major catastrophe? The answer is an unqualified no — not under the capable leadership of Andrew Lockwood and his team at the Tulare County Office of Emergency Services (OES). Lockwood is the Tulare County OES manager and has been working on […]
Construction on a new $8.6 million solar project in Farmersville could begin as early as this month. “We’ve been approved by the city of Farmersville Planning Commission and expect to start construction by the end of January,” said Don Watson, president of ImMODO Energy Services Corporation in Visalia. “It was great working with the city […]
The holidays were extra special this year for 11 families in Reedley, who received the keys to their homes during a celebration ceremony December 19. The group spent nearly 10 months building each other’s homes, developed by Visalia-based Self-Help Enterprises and funded through USDA’s Mutual Self-Help Housing Loan program. The rules of the program are […]
Tulare County Superintendent of Schools, Jim Vidak announced that Child Lures Prevention Program Parent Guides are available to interested staff, their families and community members. Written by nationally recognized author and child abduction expert, Ken Wooden, the guides are designed to teach parents and children how to recognize and thwart frequently used child abduction “lures.” […]
Covered California and the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced that from October 1 to November 30, as a benefit of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an estimated 30,161 individuals in the Central Valley started applications for Covered California health insurance plans. Cumulatively, 7,660 individuals in the counties of San Joaquin, […]
Following a rigorous evaluation, Sequoia Riverlands Trust (SRT) has been awarded accreditation from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. SRT is among just 11 such land trusts nationally to receive this recognition in the current round, and nationally among just over 200 total LTA-accredited land trusts. “Sequoia Riverlands Trust has earned the public trust in our […]
ImagineU Interactive Children’s Museum held the groundbreaking for its eagerly anticipated new facility on December 18. About 100 community leaders and other museum supporters were present to help launch the construction phase of the new museum, which is expected to open in spring 2015. The new ImagineU, which will be located at 603 E. Oak […]
College of the Sequoias is implementing a TNR Program that would solve the cat problem at Mooney Grove by the end of 2014. After listening to everyone involved, the solution to managing the cat population in Mooney Grove was there all the time – the Trap, Neuter and Release Program that was suggested in the […]
The normal quiet, steady flow of small town politics in the city of Dinuba, tucked away in the rural northeastern reaches of Tulare County, has taken on an ugly face that threatens to rip the fabric of the once-tranquil community. Many in this community of approximately 24,000 residents are shocked and angry over what they […]
This is the second part of a two-part series on saving Mooney’s Grove’s cats. The first part focused on a volunteer group implementing the Trap and Release Program. This part focuses on the county’s response and how it plans to move forward. In response to the Valley Voice’s article on the Trap, Neuter and Release […]