The City of Tulare and Adventist health announced a five-year agreement with two additional five-year option terms to name the newly constructed outdoor amphitheater at Zumwalt Park in Downtown Tulare the “Adventist Health Amphitheater.” This exciting new venue will be host to world-class entertainment acts. Additionally, Adventist Health becomes the venue’s hospitality sponsor. “We are […]
Gear up for an action-packed evening at the 2024 Tulare County Fair with our thrilling Demolition Derby! Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 14, 2024, as the Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway transforms into a roaring arena of metal-crunching excitement. The Grandstands will open at 4:00 pm, giving you plenty of time to grab your favorite fair […]
Adventist Health is pleased to welcome fellowship-trained minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon, Abraham J. Khan, MD, to its medical offices in Hanford and Tulare. Khan specializes in laparoscopic, hysteroscopic and robotic surgeries, which typically enable patients to return home more quickly and with less pain and scarring than traditional surgical approaches. He has a special interest […]
The Center for Art, Culture, and History, Exeter, or CACHE, will be hosting a fall classic film noir cinema series every first Monday at 6 p.m. beginning September 2nd with the 1952 film Kansas City Confidential. The rest of the fall season lineup includes The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) on October 7th, starring […]
On August 3 a lightning-caused fire was located in the southwest corner of Sequoia National Park that was sized at 0.1 acre. It was quickly contained by fire crews, but after nearly a week of no activity, a burning tree fell and rolled over the containment line, and the fire began to grow, reaching five […]
Former stock car builder and local racer Dennis Robertson, 75, will join other members of the Quail Park Memory Care community for one last drive around the Madera Speedway on August 16 from 3 to 4 p.m. Pace car driver Joshua Rodriguez will drive the group around the track in the official Madera Speedway Pace […]
With more California walnut orchards being removed, the outlook for the industry is expected to improve as growers try to balance supply and demand. But such efforts alone will not be enough to put them on a fast track to market recovery and profitability, analysts suggest. A new report by RaboResearch Food and Agribusiness says […]
With some of the state’s major agricultural commodities struggling and farmers and ranchers facing increasing economic and regulatory pressures, California farm leaders say the industry will continue to lose farms as more are squeezed out and few people enter the business. In a meeting last week of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, […]
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) awarded Westlands Water District (District), a $1,000,000 grant as part of DWR’s Flood Diversion Recharge (FDRE) Initiative. This grant will assist the State’s efforts to reduce flooding by increasing flood flow diversion volumes to recharge areas and expand local capacity to divert future flood waters. These efforts in […]
Join the City of Porterville and the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) to recycle unwanted mattresses and box springs this month on August 17, 2024, and every third Saturday of the month thereafter. The City and MRC opened a permanent collection site this past July at the City’s Corporation Yard located at 555 N. Prospect St. […]