Less than a year after moving to its new west Visalia facility, the Valley Oak SPCA Low-Cost Clinic is in need of a new doctor. For the past month, the clinic has ceased offering vaccination and spay/neuter surgeries to the public, due to the lack of a veterinarian. “We’re in the process of trying to […]
Reporter’s Note: A few weeks back this reporter found a listing on Craig’s List for filing cabinets. The Visalia Rescue Mission had received a donation of an abundance of them. Since the Valley Voice was in need, a reply was made to the listing and an appointment set to check them out. Valley Voice purchased […]
By an interesting quirk of fate, two statistics regarding Tulare County are nearly identical: About 20% of the county’s land is taken up by national parks, and almost 20% of the students fail to graduate high school. While these statistics seemingly have little to do with each other, at least one local educator thinks there […]
Any fear of the Salinas Californian overshadowing the Visalia Times-Delta (VTD) was put to bed last month. After 144 years of publication, the Salinas Californian announced that it was going to transition from a daily to three days a week, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The change starts September 28. Since their announcement, the Salinas Californian […]
At the August 25 Tulare County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, the board voted to open escrow for the purchase of the Cigna building on Akers and Tulare Avenue and across from the Lifestyles Gym. The sales price for the two-story, 180,679-square-foot building is $16.97 million. The county intends to make this a cash deal. Cigna […]
As if the drought weren’t bad enough, water users in and around Visalia may soon be paying more at the tap. California Water Service, in paperwork filed with the state’s Public Utility Commission, is proposing a series of rate increases starting in 2017 that would see its customers paying $6.79 more each month by 2019. […]
The Food Freedom initiative has been officially filed and the Urban Farmers for Food Freedom has five months left to gather approximately 8,000 signatures to qualify for the June, 2016 ballot. Fewer signatures are needed to get on the November ballot. The initiative would allow any “family household” to keep up to six chickens and […]
Six months ago, SeaPort Airlines started daily service from Visalia to Sacramento and Burbank. The results have been very good with many flights full or near capacity. Some locals have actually had trouble getting tickets for their preferred flights. “It’s an interesting problem to have,” said Mario Cifuentez, Visalia airport manager. SeaPort flies four flights […]
The City of Visalia is in the beginning stages of forming a Ground Water Sustainability Agency (GSA) with the City of Tulare and Tulare Irrigation District (TID). The first stage includes forming a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to set the groundwork for the three entities to join together in a GSA. The Visalia City council […]
Visalia city council voted unanimously to send out a Request for Proposal (RRP) to hotel developers in order to promote properties close to the convention center. This action was prompted by three unsolicited expressions of interests from developers to build a down town hotel in the last six months. In February, the Visalia City Council […]