The Tulare County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted 5-0 at their August 26 meeting to file an Unfair Labor Practices Charge against SEIU. The decision came after an impassioned presentation by County Counsel Kathleen Bales-Lange that described SEIU’s inappropriate conduct during this year’s negotiations. SEIU and the county were in negotiations from March to the […]
The City of Visalia’s Air Service Subcommittee is expected to decide soon which of five airlines will provide service to the city’s airport. After filing for a 45-day extension, the decision on which company to recommend to the Visalia City Council is now scheduled for September 15. The current air service contract expires at the […]
Gail Zurek, the tourism and marketing manager for the Visalia Convention and Visitors Bureau, has been selected as the new chief executive officer of the Visalia Chamber of Commerce. Zurek has been with the Visalia Convention and Visitors Bureau since November 2013. Her position involves implementing the bureau’s tourism, public relations, media and group tour […]
Wildlife officers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California National Guard – Counterdrug Task Force, Tule River Tribal member organizations and a multitude of other agencies successfully conducted a five-day operation to eradicate marijuana from tribal lands last week. In addition to creating a public safety threat, the growers were poaching wildlife, […]
Tulare County Farm Bureau will present Bounty of the County from 5-8pm on September 20 at the Historic Seven Sycamores Ranch in Ivanhoe. Bounty of the County is a celebration of local agriculture with bountiful samplings of food, beverages and specialty products grown in Tulare County. Tickets are $45 each and available at the Tulare […]
The Water Bond hasn’t even passed yet and additional water storage is already in the works for Tulare County. A 4,000-acre-foot reservoir is being planned south of Woodlake and next to Lemon Cove where the St. Johns River and the Kaweah River split at a location known as McKay’s Point. An Indian village used to […]
A Peer Review of CEMEX’ hydrology report was delivered to the Resource Management Agency (RMA) Tuesday, August 26, and concluded that “it was difficult to say CEMEX was without fault” for residential wells going dry. Back in January, four Lemon Cove residents living next door to the Stillwell mine started experiencing dry wells. EMKO Environmental, […]
Allstate Insurance Company released its 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” last week, and Visalia ranks first in California and seventh nationally as safest among America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency. According to the report, the average driver in Visalia will experience an auto collision every 12.4 years – an […]
Air quality in California’s San Joaquin Valley, which for years has been ranked as one of the worst in the United States, has improved over the past decade and looks to improve even more in the future. Speaking at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, chemist Sally Pusede described how […]
This summer, the Migrant Education Program oversaw instructional services at 42 Tulare and Kings County school districts – the largest number coordinated by the program in recent years. Over 6,500 migrant education students (pre-K to age 22) were served by highly qualified teachers on school sites and at home. The focus of summer programs was […]