After a virtual event in 2020, the public is invited to view memorial quilts representing those taken by violent crime in Tulare County. Traditionally recognized as part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week in April, this year’s viewing will take place from 10:00 am to 6:30 pm on Wednesday, October 27, at the Visalia Convention […]
A press release from Kaweah Health Free vaccine clinic set for Oct. 23 in Tulare VISALIA – Kaweah Health and Olympic Silver Medalist Richard “Kiki” Torrez Jr. are teaming up to urge Tulare County residents to fight back against COVID-19 by getting vaccinated at a free COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, Oct. 23, in Tulare. […]
A Press Release From VUSD The Board of Trustees of the Visalia Unified School District recently took action to open an application window for any individuals interested in filling the current board member vacancy for Trustee Area 4. The Board also established a meeting date to interview applicants for the Board seat and make the […]
The Tulare Local Healthcare District is currently accepting applications to fill a vacancy on its Board of Directors due to the resignation of Senovia Gutierrez that was effective October 1. The appointment will be made by a vote of the Board to fill the vacancy by the end of November. Once appointed, the new Director […]
Area historians gathered with excitement on Tuesday as a team of Tehachapi-based archaeologists surveyed Visalia’s Old Lumberyard on Oak and Garden streets with Ground-Penetrating Radar equipment (GPR.) Self Help Enterprises is due to tear down the lumberyard in order to build The Lofts at Fort Visalia, an affordable housing complex. The Visalia City Council requested […]
The City of Visalia needs your input! The city’s redistricting process is underway, and officials are inviting the public to join in at upcoming mapping workshops. The two mapping workshops will include information on the redistricting process from National Demographic Corporation. Officials will ask the public for their input on communities of interest, an overview […]
Local historians are almost positive that Fort Visalia, where the town of Visalia began in 1852, is located at the Old Lumberyard at Oak and Garden streets. Thanks to state-of-the-art GPR detection equipment being brought to Visalia on Oct. 12, they hope to find out for sure. The Old Lumberyard will soon be torn down […]
A new state law effective next year would effectively ban single family housing lots in an effort to ease the state’s housing crisis. While the law would allow more units to be built on a single family parcel, local cities are pushing back against the idea. The Hanford City Council September 21 unanimously passed a […]
The Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) is undergoing a leadership shake-up as one of its board members and its CEO depart. A board member pivotal to the district’s transformation, Senovia Gutierrez, is resigning as her work duties take her outside of the district’s boundaries. Separately, the district’s CEO Sandra Ormonde has resigned, and the […]
Tulare County is poised for a 2020 Census-based redrawing of political lines that should result in a much different makeup for the Board of Supervisors in the very near future, and a lawyer with the Dolores Huerta Foundations says if that redistribution of power is thwarted then the county will be forced to defend itself […]