Today, Congressman David G. Valadao released the following statement on the final passage of the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, both of which he voted in favor of: “I am proud to protect our Dreamers. My Congressional District is home to more than 7,000 DACA recipients. These young people […]
GRAMMY® winning multi-platinum group Casting Crowns is set to launch “A Night Under The Stars,” a 30-city drive-in tour headed out this spring. Presented by Compassion International, the tour gets underway March 18, and will make a stop in Tulare at the International Agri-Center®. Because the current pandemic has presented unique challenges to touring musicians, […]
Ray Welch of Orange, California, found a “priceless pearl” nearly two decades ago. Since then, his life has never been the same. He left behind a life in law enforcement as a frequent SWAT-team negotiator and found peace after discovering truths about God and began drawing close to Him. While Welch always sought to serve […]
The California Holocaust Education & Resource Center (CHERC) has some very good news! We have continued to receive numerous boxes of buttons from all over the United States and are now estimating our number of buttons received at 5,200,000. Our goal of 6 million buttons which are needed to build the Holocaust Button Memorial is […]
City of Visalia playgrounds, park bathrooms and athletic fields are set to re-open to the public on Saturday, March 20. “Since Tulare County is now within the lower Substantial Risk Level – Red Tier of the reopening Blueprint for a Safer Economy our Community Services Department is pleased to announce that playgrounds, park bathrooms and […]
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has announced that Westlands Water District was awarded a $1,609,000 grant from Reclamation’s WaterSMART Fiscal Year 2021 Water and Energy Efficiency Grant Program. The grant was awarded to fund the District’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project, which will retrofit 760 manually read groundwater well meters with advanced, automated metering devices that […]
Now that a significant agricultural immigration bill has won passage from the U.S. House of Representatives, the California Farm Bureau has called on the Senate to begin the process of moving the bill to President Biden’s desk. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 by Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., passed […]
The Tulare Public Cemetery has placed two side by side burial plots at the Kern Cemetery up for competitive bid allowing an opportunity for the public to purchase the burial rights for these plots using the website GovDeals.com. This is an opportunity to plan for future burial in the Tulare Kern Cemetery. This opportunity is […]
The Visalia City Council met Monday, March 15, to receive an official presentation from Salt+Light and Self-Help Enterprises on their joint project to create a neighborhood village in Goshen for the chronically homeless. The presentation was met with high praise across the board. But the same cannot be said about Wednesday’s joint city council meeting […]
A press release from Tamara Ravalín, Ed.D., Superintendent On March 16, 2021, the California Blueprint for a Safer Economy updated its county tier assignments, and Tulare County moved from the purple tier to the red tier. With this change, all Visalia Unified School District middle and high school sites will welcome students back for in-person […]