In an effort to increase the number of children who walk or bicycle to school, the California Transportation Committee (CTC), has awarded Tulare County $2.8 million in grants for Safe Routes to School (SRTS) infrastructure improvement projects. More than 600 projects from across the state of California were submitted with 90 being selected for funding, […]
In the wake of the State’s historic drought, local agencies have come together to address the region’s groundwater and how they’ll manage the precious resource. “We need the public’s ideas and input, now the time has come to recruit citizens to serve on the GSA’s Advisory Committee,” says Michael Olmos, City Manager, City of Visalia. […]
The Visalia City Council continues to be proactive in finding options for addressing water supplies and conservation. To ensure the community’s well-being in the future, on November 12 the Council requested that an appraisal of California Water Service move forward. Visalia is the only city in Tulare County that does not own its water delivery […]
Realizing the need for a new animal control facility or the rebuilding of its current one, the City of Porterville hired the consultation of an independent study by UC Davis’ Koret Shelter Medicine Program (KSMP). Many of the findings of the KSMP report sum up the need to require a nearly complete overhaul, or replacement […]
On October 7, on the proverbial heels of the week-long trial earlier this year before the Special Masters, the Commission on Judicial Performance convened in San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit Court for final arguments concerning Tulare County Superior Court Judge Valeriano Saucedo. The focus of allegations of judicial misconduct in 2013 toward his previous courtroom clerk, […]
The City of Visalia invites you to attend a ribbon cutting and unveiling event for Visalia’s new V-Line, an affordable and convenient bus service between Visalia and Fresno. The ceremony takes place Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9 a.m. at the Visalia Transit Center just one day before it makes its first official route. Immediately […]
Music at the Main, now entering its sixth year in Tulare County, has broken through to national recognition for its top tier chamber music program. At last summer’s Aspen Music Festival, several of the most world’s most sought after soloists and music pedagogues had heard about the program. One commented that it may provide a […]
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 […]