The Tulare Local Healthcare District recently announced the appointment of Sandra L. Ormonde as the District’s first post Hospital lease Chief Executive Officer. Ormonde will begin work on May 1, 2019. Ormonde is a Tulare native who has worked as a Systems Integration Engineer at Edwards Air Force Base since 2006. She is experienced in […]
Six traditional Visalia schools were flagged as underperforming by The California Department of Education in January. Divisadero Middle, Goshen Elementary, Houston Elementary, Pinkham Elementary, Royal Oaks Elementary, and Willow Glen Elementary were explicitly named in the report. Sequoia High was also listed, but its status as a continuation school makes it a special case as […]
Landing in the belly of the beast, Congressman TJ Cox decided to conduct his first Town Hall in Hanford. Cox represents the 21st District comprising Kern, Kings, Fresno and a slice of southern Tulare County. Though Cox enjoyed a decisive victory in Kern County, he lost to Hanford’s favorite son, former Representative David Valadao in […]
Hanford City Council voted at its March 19 meeting to legalize pot deliveries and recreational marijuana inside city limits. Recreational pot is legal in the state, but is not legal within the city of Hanford or many other Central Valley towns. But that is about to change. The council voted 4-1 to allow two storefront […]
It used to be that the local newspaper publisher or editor was a fixture in the community—someone you would see at Rotary or church on Sunday. This visibility built trust and confidence for the newspaper in the community. But as the newspaper industry undergoes a wrenching transformation from print to a more online presence, many […]
Many local community members came together last Thursday and broke ground at the new Sequoia High School campus. An assortment of Visalia City Council members, Tulare County Supervisors, and Visalia School Board members mingled with students and staff from the high school. Together, they shoveled the inaugural dirt of the groundbreaking ceremony. The continuation school […]
On March 15 community leaders and elected officials discussed the importance of the 2020 census with the media in hopes of reaching more community members. Eddie Valero, District 4 Tulare County Supervisor, Dr. Edward Flores, a professor at UC Merced, and Greg Gomez, Mayor of Farmersville, were some of the key speakers who provided information […]
A seven-acre plot of land at Betty Drive east of Highway 99 in Goshen will soon become a major source of tax income for Tulare County, as developers rush to capitalize on the newly completed freeway interchange. “We’re breaking ground for a new development here in the county,” said Lucky Thandi, president of Valley Fuel […]
The City of Visalia is now the proud owner of the state’s second largest membrane bioreactor (MBR), which serves as the heart of the newly refurbished Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). “We just underwent a $150 million expansion,” said Jason Rodrigues, operations supervisor for the plant, which is located west of Visalia on Avenue 288. […]
Tulare County Association of Realtors member, Brian Gilbert, said that Visalia is the last nice place in California where you can find an affordable home. According to the California Association of Realtors, two-thirds of Central Valley residents can afford a median priced home in their town versus only 34% of Bay Area residents. That was […]