After the Tulare County Agriculture Commissioner got done presenting the county’s record-breaking production numbers, Supervisor Pete Vander Poel summed it up, “in less than 10 years Tulare County has doubled its ag value.” Marilyn Kinoshita, agriculture commissioner, made a point to say during her presentation that, in the face of the states’ worst drought in […]
On July 31 Assemblyman Devon Mathis kept a crowd of about 50 constituents waiting nearly 20 minutes after the scheduled 5pm start of his town hall meeting. With good reason. After waiting roadside for nearly three hours, having suffered a tire blowout near Selma, Mathis finally got a ride from the CHP to make the […]
Depending upon with whom you talk, e-cigarettes are very safe or very dangerous. That debate broke out at the Tulare County Board of Supervisors July 21 meeting with the discussion of an ordinance change on smoking. An e-cigarette is a device run on batteries that lights up at the end to look like a real […]
At the July 21 Tulare County Board of Supervisor’s meeting, Papich Asphalt Plant in Goshen received its final approval. A special use permit was approved to allow Papich to make and sell asphalt and rock products. An appeal of the permit, submitted by Houston Wells, president of Glen Wells Construction Firm, was denied, and the […]
The Tulare County Board of Supervisors (BOS) was briefed at their July 28 meeting on the new Animal Control Ordinance. The new ordinance has to go through a second reading on August 11 before it becomes final. The proposed changes, voted 5-0 in favor by the board, affect only residents in unincorporated areas of the […]
The Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to form a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to ensure the Valley gets the funds to build Temperance Flat Dam. In November of last year, a $7.5 billion water bond was approved to repair the state’s aging water infrastructure. Of that money, $2.7 billion was allocated toward building […]
Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted to put sheriff deputies on Lake Patrol at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success. Kern and Tulare are the only counties in the state to patrol their lakes by civilians. Currently, the Lake Patrol unit is under the county’s General Services Department. The civilian attendants are represented by Service Employees […]
The wells around the county are failing, miserably. And the issue is a lot more complicated than originally imagined. During a meeting with Tulare County Chief of Administration, Jean Rousseau, citizen advocates, Amy Dickinson Campbell and Eric Campbell, attendees learned that a local farmer drilled a new well to the depth of 1,200 feet and […]
Have you visited Mooney Grove Park recently? If you have, you have probably seen the park to be in fairly despicable shape. It’s true that the drought has significantly impacted the condition of the park and the health of the trees, but there seems to be another issue that is causing negative impact to the […]
At the June 2 Tulare County Board of Supervisors meeting, item 17 of the consent calendar was pulled for separate discussion. Amy Dickinson-Campbell, from the Real Mooney Grove Project, requested that the item be pulled so they could discuss why the well failure at Mooney Grove constitutes an emergency. Dickenson-Campbell pointed out that the particular […]