Larry Micari, a retired Captain in the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department, kicked off his campaign last Friday to challenge first-term supervisor Kuyler Crocker for Tulare County Board of Supervisors District 1. “A few months after I retired I started getting phone calls and they never really stopped. The calls came from different people but the […]
You Go Girl! In Chicago two African American women were the top two vote getters out of 14 candidates for mayor. On February 26, 2019 Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle advanced to an April 2 runoff election. The election is already being heralded as historic because it will elect Chicago’s first African American woman. Ms. Lightfoot […]
March 8: Video entries for the 2019 Slick Rock Student Film Festival due Middle and high school students living in Kern, Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Merced or Mariposa counties may enter videos in a total of 18 categories. Visit tcoe.org/SlickRock for information. Awards ceremony at the Visalia Fox Theater on May 10. March 9: Birding […]
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I’m sure everyone has heard that Russia launched a massive social media campaign of misinformation during the 2016 election. What locals may not know is that an Israeli spy group was doing the exact same thing in Tulare. Shocked? Dr. Benny Benzeevi, Dr. Parmod Kumar and Carlton Jones aren’t. In the February 18 and 25 […]
Last week when Governor Gavin Newsom declared California did not have enough money to finish the High-Speed Rail (HSR) not a few well informed Kings County residents said, “I told you so.” One Kings County resident who could only speak off the record said, “Newsom stated the obvious and it’s what we have been saying […]
February 21 & 22 & 23: ‘Once Upon a Mattress Redwood High School presents the musical comedy version of the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” Feb 21 & 22 at 7:00pm, Feb 23 2:00 and 7:00. L.J. Williams Theatre, 1001 W. Main, Visalia. Facebook: RHS Musical—Once Upon a Mattress February 22: “Moonstruck” Featuring […]
In a bucolic little corner on the south eastern edge of Porterville exists a piece of Tule River floodplain that has never felt the till of a plow or the heard the hammering of a nail. The place is the Yaudanchi Ecological Reserve (YER.) The reserve is an outdoor classroom for the Porterville public school […]
Silence of the Damned In late spring of 2018 Lemoore’s City Manager, Andi Welsh, was fired. That made Lemoore Police Chief Darryl Smith the interim city manager. Being the interim city manager meant he would be on the committee to hire a new city manager. Lemoore ended up hiring Nathan Olson, and just by coincidence, […]
Silence of the Damned In late spring of 2018 Lemoore’s City Manager, Andi Welsh, was fired. That made Lemoore Police Chief Darryl Smith the interim city manager. Being the interim city manager meant he would be on the committee to hire a new city manager. Lemoore ended up hiring Nathan Olson, and just by coincidence, […]