Tulare’s new police chief was sworn in and began serving in his permanent position on November 14, after having worked as interim chief for nearly six months. Naming Wes Hensley to the permanent position was an easy decision, said City Manager Don Dorman. “His longevity with the department and as a captain; he was head […]
McDermont Field House will stay open, furloughs for city employees will end on December 5, and the proposal to add a half-percent to Lindsay’s sales tax is dead for now–but the city is still operating in the red and no plan to make up the gap is yet in the works as strife continues among […]
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 […]
The Tulare County Resource Management Agency (RMA) is taking the bull by its horns and preparing for possible major flooding this winter. With the prediction of an El Nino, the RMA is being proactive in preventing the catastrophic damage that could occur in the event of torrential rains in the Central Valley. According to the […]
On February 15 of this year Daniel Garibay was fired from the Woodlake Police Department after almost three years of commendable service. He was fired based on 12 counts of misconduct, the principal counts being insubordination and “committing acts that brought discredit to the Department.” According to Garibay’s lawyers, Sarsfield and Melo, the counts of […]
With plans for a new acute-care hospital in downtown Visalia already underway, the Kaweah Delta Health Care District has approved $100 million in additional expansion and upgrades. Included in the long list of construction projects are a new urgent-care facility in northwest Visalia and a doubling of ER beds downtown. “The short of it is […]
The Kings County Superior Court will shutter the doors of courthouses in Avenal and Corcoran on December 18. Staff from the two locations will be reassigned to the Hanford Courthouse, and all court business will be conducted there after that date. The closures, the result of years of funding shortfalls in the state budget, are […]
At the October 6 Tulare County Board of Supervisors meeting, the board voted to declare a local emergency due to widespread and increasing tree mortality in Tulare County. The vote was taken at the request of officials in Fresno, Mariposa, Madera and Tuolumne, who asked Tulare County to join them in their declaration. The combined […]
The City of Tulare and the Cal Water Company say a group of chemical manufacturers spent decades contaminating local groundwater with a dangerous, cancer-causing pollutant, and now they’re looking to make the alleged polluters clean up their mess. Lawyers for the City of Tulare could be in court as soon as February 8 to take […]
The state of Mooney Grove Park seems to have become a hot potato no one in county government wants to handle for fear of being burned. The number of public complaints about the declining state of the county-maintained park – where benches lie broken, ponds are choked with decay, and trees are dying, if not […]