A Press Release from Kaweah Health On Wednesday afternoon, with hospital capacity stabilizing at 95 percent, Kaweah Health called off its two-day internal emergency due to rapid hospitalizations, and opened its newly expanded Emergency Department. “Our hospital capacity issues have not been fixed. We’re still going to have volume issues, but we’ve worked really hard […]
A press release from Kaweah Health Due to a rapid increase in patient hospitalizations, both with and without a COVID-19 diagnosis, Kaweah Health called a Code Triage on Monday, August 16, 2021 at approximately 1:30 p.m. A Code Triage is a disaster or problem that may affect the hospital and/or the patients and puts us […]
A press release from VUSD Visalia Unified School District and the community are experiencing a large increase in the number of cases of COVID-19, and as indicated in Kaweah Health’s recent media release, our local hospital has reached capacity. Additionally, VUSD is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of staff being placed in quarantine, and there […]
A majority of the city council tonight selected Liz Wynn, director of the Kaweah Delta Hospital Foundation, to fill the District 1 (central) seat of the late Phil Cox. Although Wynn answered a series of questions posed to all six finalists during public interviews, several council members said one thing that swayed them was that […]
The Visalia City Council is expected to name a replacement for Vice Mayor Phil Cox’s District 1 (central) seat on August 12, said Mayor Steve Nelsen. Included in the list of candidates is former judge Howard Broadman who acted improperly in a 1996 real estate case, said the state Commission on Judicial Performance. Cox died […]
At the Visalia City Council’s meeting on August 2, the council voted to remove some protections for agricultural land from the city’s general plan. The 2030 General Plan is the city’s blueprint for development. The three backers of removing the program said the Agricultural Mitigation Program was either unworkable or could be offset by other […]
After an extended period of COVID darkness, the Visalia Players are mounting an abbreviated season in 2021-22, bringing live theatre to our community. A Night in Vegas, is the theater’s season opener August 7, 2021, 6:30pm. Jamie Hitchcock stars in this gala evening of Frank Sinatra hits so dust off those party clothes languishing in […]
Downtown Visalia will see traffic lane closures beginning the evening of Sunday, July 25th as California Water Service begins the next phase of their water main replacement project. A temporary closure will take place at the intersection of Main and Encina Streets. “California Water Service is scheduled to start the jack and bore segment of […]
The Source LGBT+ Center, serving Tulare, Kings, and Fresno Counties, is pleased to announce the results of the nation-wide LGBT organization fundraiser, GiveOut Day. Participating in the ‘National Large’ category for the first time and grouped with 130 other local and national organizations, The Source LGBT+ Center took the top spot, after having had won […]
A handful of former members of Visalia’s now-defunct Environmental Committee have gone rogue, and one of the men who put them out of business couldn’t be happier to see them carrying on their work in a new setting. Only Mandated Committees In what appears to be a new way of doing business at Visalia […]