Brooke Crain of Visalia showed her consistency by riding to a second-place finish for the second consecutive year at round one of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Manchester, England on April 19th. Starting from gate 2 in the final, next to defending world champion Caroline Buchanan of Australia, Crain stayed on Buchanan’s wheel […]
Young or old, everyone has heard or can identify with music of the 1960s, woven into the American fabric by such artists as The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. “Last of the Boys,” which provides a glimpse into the lives of Vietnam vets 30 years after the war, uses the music of that era to […]
Throughout the month of May, Arts Visalia is proud to feature artworks by artist Reiko Yoshimoto in an exhibition titled “Painting with Paper.” The title of the exhibition stems from the method of art that is employed in the majority of the works on display. Known as chigiri-e, it is a collage process where the […]
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Assembly Member Luis Alejo will be the keynote speakers at the annual Rose Ann Vuich Dinner and Awards Presentation on Saturday, May 10, at the Lamp Liter Inn in Visalia. “We are happy that we have two brilliant and effective leaders coming to Tulare County to speak to us […]
The Creative Center’s Jon Ginsburg Gallery will host “The Visalia High School Art Showcase 2014,” a juried art exhibit featuring the art of Visalia high school students, May 2-18. This showcase is an opportunity for Visalia high school art students to professionally present their selected work in a public gallery setting. Five Visalia high schools […]
The gun raffle and campaigning on duty issues are deplorable but it’s not a surprise. Those issues are however, absolutely trivial and insignificant if compare to the reality of the crimes that have been white-washed and swept under the carpet throughout the current ‘acting’ Sheriff’s career. It’s ironic that in his attempts to paint Whaley […]
Sourdough Slim, the last of the great vaudeville showmen, will bring his musical act and zany deadpan humor back to Mavericks Coffee House in Visalia for a 7pm show on Friday, May 16. Slim will be joined for the first time at Mavericks by his equally talented, but more sane, Saddle Pals. Sourdough Slim has […]
The California High-Speed Rail Authority and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) have announced the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement for the Fresno-to-Bakersfield project section of the California High-Speed Rail project. The Final EIR/EIS represents a comprehensive, project-level review of the section that runs approximately 114 miles from downtown Fresno to downtown […]
This spring, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced that rain and snow storms in February and March have allowed an increase of water contract allocations for State Water Project deliveries from zero to five percent. Although this appears to have been positive news for agricultural interests in the San Joaquin Valley, it is […]
Presidio Residential Capital, headquartered in San Diego, working with Visalia-based development company San Joaquin Valley Homes, is investing $23 million to build five new communities in Tulare and Kings counties. The developments will add 732 new homes to the Valley’s rapidly expanding housing market. “The San Joaquin Valley is developing quickly, and this partnership allows […]