At dusk on a June evening this year, a car drove by Vicki Riddle’s house on D Street in Exeter. The driver stopped the car, got out, and started shooting at two teenage pedestrians. Two children on their bikes ran to Riddle’s neighbor’s house to take shelter, and the two teenagers being shot at ran […]
Plans to build a 22,500-square-foot firearm and ammunition retail box store and indoor shooting range in north Visalia are on hold at the developer’s request. Construction of the mega-sized gun shop was on the agenda of the Visalia Planning Commission latest meeting Monday, November 14. A public hearing was scheduled, continuing a process begun in […]
No one can tell who will be victorious on November 8, but public records can tell us who amassed the most cash during campaign season. The Visalia City Council race has ten candidates running in four districts: the candidate who raised the most money was Vice Mayor Brian Poochigian, running against Heather Carter in District […]
The mother of a student assaulted by a fellow student on the Divisadero Middle School campus says the school and the Visalia Unified School District (VUSD) failed to protect her daughter after the attack. The district has a violent campus that the administrators are unable to control, she said. Surprise Attack Early this school […]
Rep. Connie Conway (CA-22) today introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to open up the Hetch Hetchy reservoir to recreational activities and to force the City of San Francisco to pay a fair price for its access to the reservoir’s water and power. Cosponsored by Representatives David Valadao (CA-21) and Tom McClintock (CA-4), […]
“Our team is focused on excellence and works tirelessly to care for this community, and while what we do is not for the awards or the praise, it’s wonderful to see this team get recognized for the great work that they do,” said Gary Herbst, Chief Executive Officer of Kaweah Health. “To be named among […]
This is part II about the VUSD election profiling the challengers. Part I focused on the incumbents. Each of the six candidates seeking to unseat four incumbents on the Visalia Unified School District’s (VUSD) Board of Trustees in the upcoming election seems to think, in one way or another, that they can do a better […]
Tulare County has an opportunity to obtain a 4-year university and Measure C could make that possible. Measure C, if passed November 8, would levy a parcel tax of $13 per $100,000 of appraised value of property owners in the district. Students and parents at the College of the Sequoias (COS) have their own opinions about this […]
If you are searching for a layered, complex, and slightly crazy city council race – Hanford never disappoints. Factions have emerged between the candidates running for city council, and the obvious bloc seems to be Hanford City Council members Amanda Saltray and Francisco Ramirez, and candidate for District E Cheyne Strawn, who all belong to […]
The race for four contested seats on the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education is taking on an ugly tone, with accusations from candidates of an inadequate response by staff to student-on-student violence and unethical union politics on the city’s campuses. Student Attack at Middle School What is emerging as a troubling issue […]