Looking for interesting conversations and/or a place to peruse books at your leisure? Then, Neighborhood Bookstore’s booth at Taste the Arts on Saturday, October 17 is for you. Neighborhood Bookstore has grown from a seed sown by Carole Firstman and Irene Morse at last year’s Taste the Arts to a forum where a dozen or […]
The Rocky Horror Show aficionados are in for a great treat at the Ice House Theatre in Visalia beginning Friday, October 16. Rocky Horror opened to great acclaim more than 40 years ago in London and still enjoys fan following around the world. Co-director Elicia Russel exclaims excitedly, “I started seeing Rocky Horror when I […]
Each year when California’s endless summer finally passes into autumn, Mother Nature cloaks herself in breathtaking colors of fire. In the Sierra, among the rows of towering pines, grow black oaks, cottonwoods and aspens, willows and the occasional elm, their reds, yellows and oranges blazing among the evergreens as winter nears. The transformation starts subtly […]
The impact of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is being felt locally as stakeholders, water storage and irrigation districts, county leadership and other water experts in the region meet to discuss the new state law’s directives. Plans are being assembled for each sub-basin in the Tulare Lake Basin hydrologic region. As one can imagine, […]
The 36th Annual Harvest of Handwovens, presented by Handweavers of the Valley, comes to the Exeter Memorial Building on Saturday, October 24. “This show and sale has become increasingly popular in recent years and rivals shows you might expect to find in the San Francisco or Los Angeles areas,” said Nikki Crain, show publicity chair. […]
Paul Buxman, Tulare County’s premier agricultural landscape artist-in-residence, has launched a rescue effort for Fresno County farmer Will Scott, Jr. Scott is a small-scale, organic Black farmer who has organized other Black farmers for mutual support, aided young people in getting back to the land, and produced healthy food once common in rural Black diets […]
It’s a vital California resource, but groundwater isn’t easily understood—and during the state’s four-year drought, as groundwater pumping has increased in response to reduced surface supplies, it has been the subject of sometimes-alarming, but not necessarily accurate, public statements about the health of the resource. The drought has focused attention on groundwater and newly adopted […]
The public is invited to view the exhibition “Dancing Threads” featuring contemporary quilts by local artists from now through October 23 at the Porterville College Art Gallery. The public is also invited to the reception from 5-7pm on Thursday, October 1. These artists will be showing, through often non-traditional materials and methods, quilts that express […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is now surveying produce packers and other post-harvest businesses to help fruit and vegetables operations as they prepare to implement new federal food safety requirements. The 2015 Produce Post-Harvest Microbial Food Safety Practices Survey marks the first time since 1998 that such a survey has […]
When I first moved to Porterville 30-something years ago, I remember driving around looking at different neighborhoods for a home. I was so impressed with one home’s landscaping and appeal that I kept going back to that area hoping to find a house. What made it look so welcoming were the colorful blossoms spilling out […]