A press release by the City of Hanford In preparation for a grant application to the State of California, earlier this year the City of Hanford asked residents to “Design Your Dream Park.” With today’s announcement that the City of Hanford has been awarded an $8.5 million dollar grant from the State’s Office of Grants […]
The history of the first superspeedway west of the Mississippi capable of hosting NASCAR and USAC Indy type car races will be celebrated in an exhibition presented by the Carnegie Museum of Kings County beginning Nov. 12 and ending Dec. 19. Marchbanks Speedway, later known as Hanford Motor Speedway, started out in the early 1950s […]
Each year the National Trust for Historic Preservation honors the distinguished individuals, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations who are doing important work in their communities with the National Preservation Awards at the annual PastForward Conference, November 2-5. China Alley Preservation Society from Hanford, California was honored with the Trustees Emeritus Award for Historic Site […]
The Hanford City Council conducted one of its most consequential meetings on November 2, making sweeping decisions that will change the course of the city. The council voted to annex seven city islands, abolish a zoning ordinance criticized as archaic, and reverse the zoning on an undeveloped 18 acre patch of Hidden Valley Park from […]
The Hanford City Council agreed to continue the city’s subsidy to the Hanford Chamber of Commerce through the June 30, 2022 — but permanently end it after that. This fiscal year the chamber is to get $40,000. It has already received $20,000 and will get another $20,000 by the end of June 2022, said Amory […]
The Hanford Planning Commission rejected a staff and council recommendation to approve zoning changes such as optometry, medical, and dental offices to operate at 12th and Lacey Boulevard and the Costco development at Highway 43. By a 3-0 vote on Tuesday, with one abstention, the commission approved a motion to have a citizens’ group, the […]
A new state law effective next year would effectively ban single family housing lots in an effort to ease the state’s housing crisis. While the law would allow more units to be built on a single family parcel, local cities are pushing back against the idea. The Hanford City Council September 21 unanimously passed a […]
Rayvn Cullor, a reporter for a five-day-a-week newspaper, filed a complaint against besieged Council Member Art Brieno for ‘inappropriate’ comments following a July 21 interview, according to a copy of the complaint filed with the City of Hanford. The alleged comments were ironic because the topic of the interview was Brieno’s interactions with Darlene Mata, […]
After a long and winding road, Caliva finally opened its Hanford storefront dispensary on August 1. Their official ribbon cutting on August 13 where officials from State Senator Mellissa Hurtado’s office, Representative David Valadao and Hanford Mayor Francisco Ramirez were in attendance to welcome Caliva’s long awaited opening. “We are thrilled with the location and […]
Former Hanford finance director Paula Lofgren’s explosive discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit pulls back the curtain on what she describes as a toxic workplace where a moody and autocratic city manager Mario Cifuentez made sexual advances toward her and describes Community Development Director Darlene Mata as a “nasty” and “rude” person. Lofgren also […]