To understand how our board members are elected, you need to know a little about Visalia Unified School District history. VUSD was unified in 1965, pulling together Visalia City Schools and outlying small schools. The district reaches from Goshen to Ivanhoe. Until the 2011 election, there were seven board members representing five districts. With a […]
Anyone interested in running for the Visalia City Council or the Visalia Unified School District Board can file papers until August 9. In the event that an incumbent does not file by 5 p.m. on August 9, the filing period is extended to August 14. As far as the city council is concerned, all three […]
“It’s the second year in a row that we had the highest-ever crop and livestock value,” Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner Marilyn Kinoshita told the Tulare County Board of Supervisors at its July 23 meeting. She was there to unveil and present The 2012 Tulare County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report, which showed that last year […]
When I met with Vincent Salinas for this interview, he was full of information and ideas, and his love for the city of Visalia was apparent. Although a non-incumbent seeking a Visalia City Council seat, he is an old face to Visalia, proud to trace his family roots back to 1872 when his great-grandmother first […]
The College of the Sequoias, at best, found itself marking the beginning of 2013 with a bang – but the wrong kind: it was informed that the college was on shaky ground with its accreditation; and, if left unimproved, could be forced to shut down. As the college readies itself for its second round of […]
A project summary board hanging on the wall in the small but orderly offices of Hands in the Community (HNC) serves as a reminder to the unusually dedicated group of office volunteers of the impact their efforts are making in the community. For a great many people throughout Tulare County who have never heard of […]
After an hour of public comment and over 30 minutes of debate among council members, the Porterville City Council voted Thursday, July 16, to create new guidelines for proclamations, strike down the LGBT Pride Month proclamation, and in the same vote replace it with a resolution declaring June 2013 as a “Month of Community Charity […]
In a district the size of Visalia Unified, it is not unusual to have school administrators, teachers and classified staff make decisions to retire, relocate or change positions. This year is no different and when school opens in August, there will be new faces at some schools. We have concluded a busy recruitment and hiring […]
The Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner’s office announced that six additional Asian citrus psyllids (ACP) were detected on three traps south of the city of Porterville in July. These interceptions were confirmed by the California Department of Agriculture (CDFA), bringing the number of psyllids found in Tulare County to nine. CDFA saturated the affected area with […]
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, out of the 664 bridges in Tulare County, 55 are “structurally deficient” and 75 are “functionally obsolete.” In the aftermath of the bridge collapse on Interstate 5 north of Seattle in May, and the 2007 collapse of a bridge in Minnesota that killed 13 people, how safe […]