Kern River combatants are headed back to court where a local advocacy group hopes to force the city of 优蜜传媒 to goose up flows, which were cut to a trickle, leaving piles of dead fish west of 优蜜传媒.
My daughter Brenna and I recently attended Magda Menendez鈥檚 retirement party. After 43 years, Menendez retired as the administrator of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation. According to its website, 鈥淢AOF provides social services for infants through seniors and is one of the largest n…
Last Sunday we had a celebration of life for John David Merrill, Sue's dad and my father-in-law, in the club room at the 优蜜传媒 Racquet Club. Herb Benham IV sang "Live Forever" by Billy Joe Shaver and "Blue Star," a Willie Nelson piece. John loved Willie Nelson. His niece Trish Merrill …
We find ourselves here again, where a man who would be president has referred to an alleged murderer as "an illegal alien animal" at a political rally. "The Democrats say, 'Please don't call them animals. They're humans,'" Donald Trump elaborated. "I said, 'No, they're not humans, they're no…
What a difference a month makes. In March, Arvin city officials were poised to create a new post of assistant city manager and had offered the position to its human resources manager, Meagan Miller.
In a recent article, I opined that 鈥渁ll sides need to stop the cycle of hate.鈥 The feedback I received, and my own personal feeling, was that my sentiment was a bit na茂ve. We may read in hallowed texts we should 鈥渓ove our enemies,鈥 but who does? On the international stage, we regularly see p…
At a recent event, 优蜜传媒 defense attorney H.A. "Beto" Sala was the main speaker, addressing a group of budding Latino entrepreneurs to offer encouragement in their new venture. For more than 30 years I've mostly heard Sala speak in court, passionately defending clients. This time was v…
It started at 2:14 p.m. The moon took a bite out of the sun. Just a nibble, like an appetizer.
A friend who lives a hundred miles away texts me most weeknights during "Jeopardy!" Since neither one of us has cable, we only text if we are both home and watching the half-hour show live at 7 p.m., but honestly, at our ages, that is just about every weeknight. We may comment on one contest…
Not much shocks me anymore, but I was mildly surprised to see how things played out when two members of the 优蜜传媒 City Council proposed renaming a city street after civil rights leader C茅sar Ch谩vez at last week鈥檚 council meeting.
I believe we inherited it from my dad鈥檚 side of the family. It鈥檚 the need for all our family to be together.
LOIS HENRY: Kern River bike path northern extension 鈥 12 years in the making 鈥 finally gets underway
After 12 years of planning, gathering funding then completing and redoing 鈥 and redoing again 鈥 environmental studies, the city of 优蜜传媒 has finally gone out to bid for the northern extension of the Kern River Parkway Trail.
The $171 million Kern Fan Groundwater Storage project 鈥 with a unique 鈥渆co-twist鈥 鈥 received another chunk of public funding just as the first section of the 1,300-acre project had a formal christening on Wednesday.
Wanted: Assistant city manager for city of Arvin; pays really well, too. Apply by April 10. That's the job posted on March 28 on Arvin's website. Thing is, Arvin residents have been asking a lot of questions about the process for how the city moved forward in trying to fill this post, the ne…
A Kern County grand jury report released Tuesday criticized the Delano-based North Kern South Tulare Hospital District for alleged out-of-control spending, improper approval of contracts, lack of transparency and meddling by primarily one board member in the district's day-to-day operations,…
How is it as soon as we empower our representatives to serve us, they give that authority away? Why do intelligent, free-thinking people like Assemblyman Vince Fong and Rep. David Valadao, to name a few of our local candidates, discard their independence so quickly under party pressure? For …
Jeff Pickering was in town last week. Jeff now lives in Vero Beach, Fla., where he runs the Indian River Community Foundation. In addition to Jeff and his family 鈥 wife Stephanie and kids Colin, Olivia and Grant 鈥 Indian River is home to some of the best citrus in the country, especially the…
In the 31 years since labor leader Cesar Chavez died at the age of 66, at least 31 cities in 11 states have seen fit to name a street or other community thoroughfare in his honor.
Halleujah: He is risen! A foundational tenet of Christian faith is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Without it, Christianity is just another story of a kind and ineffective prophet put to an early and tragic death by crucifixion.
Kern County district attorney background investigator Veronica Alvarez was puzzled. Why, she wondered, was her boss, District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer, hiring Lt. David Hubbard from the Kern County Sheriff's Office after Sheriff Donny Youngblood wanted him fired.
The yellow house with its neatly-trimmed lawn on the 1200 block of Kensington Street in Delano appears unassuming, save for a small marker placed by the current owner on a corner of the front yard. The marker reads, "Former residence of Cesar E. Chavez and Birth of the United Farm Workers Union."
He came out of nowhere: I鈥檒l bet most police officers have heard that statement a few times.
Reader: As mayor of the city of McFarland, I feel compelled to address and correct several inaccuracies and oversights presented in 优蜜传媒's article ("As summertime looms, McFarland residents may have to choose dirty water 鈥 or no water at all," March 17) on our city's w…
After taking a bike ride along the Kern River recently, 优蜜传媒 resident Jonathan Vegas was dismayed by what he found the farther west he pedaled.
With only three months left on her contract, the longtime attorney for the powerful Kern County Water Agency was ousted Monday during a special meeting.
It started as a normal non-football Sunday morning at my home. I had just returned from church. My daughter Nikki, her husband, Carlos, and Brenna were in the living room relaxing and playing movie roulette on the television. Movie roulette is where you spend as much time looking for and dec…
As Sal Moretti predicted in a column on Monday, it has been a great week for tennis, with the 优蜜传媒 Racquet Club hosting the 优蜜传媒 Tennis Open.
Want to rub elbows with greatness? This week is your opportunity. The future stars of tennis are passing through 优蜜传媒 this week for the 9th Annual 优蜜传媒 Tennis Open, and you鈥檒l never get a chance to rub elbows like you will at 优蜜传媒 Racquet Club starting Monday night throu…
Here's hoping you set your clocks ahead one hour before you went to bed last night. If you didn't, you're going to be late for church this morning. March 10 is our day this year to "spring forward," adjusting our clocks to daylight saving time.
When Kevin McCarthy left Congress halfway through his ninth term last December after a political bludgeoning no previous speaker of the House had ever been forced to endure, he did more than leave most of 优蜜传媒 without representation in Congress.
With nature providing plenty of water 鈥 finally 鈥 this year, and groundwater regulation well underway, water managers, farmers and others turned their focus to infrastructure at Thursday鈥檚 Water Summit put on by the Water Association of Kern County.
Barring any last-minute surprises such as finding thousands of ballots stuffed in garbage bins, all indications are that David Couch is not only the top vote-getter in the race for 4th District Kern County Supervisor, but he might have won it all on election night.
In 2017, Olivia Trujillo was diagnosed with cancer a second time. A doctor told her she had three months left to live.
Those who have not yet voted by mail in the primary election will go to the polls Tuesday and cast their vote. I urge all who will do so to carefully consider the candidates running for office, especially for Congress.
Sam Ames may be quietly doing more for 优蜜传媒's image than just about anybody. Ames, who manages Action Sports, is the founder and architect of the recently run 11th annual Rock Cobbler bike ride.
Your television, social media feed and physical mailbox will receive one last batch of assorted pleadings for your vote in the next few hours. Some of those messages might actually contain objectively factual information. Might, but probably won鈥檛.
Suspicions are on the rise after the office a coalition of community groups uses to organize a rent control petition drive in Delano was broken into sometime between 6 p.m. Monday and noon Tuesday.
The controversial Delta Conveyance Project may have bigger problems than legal action over its recently approved environmental impact report.
I don鈥檛 remember which lame excuse I used to get my adult daughter Nikki to ride with me last Sunday morning. I think the pretense was to grab her favorite extra hot sugar-free Annihilator coffee from Dutch Bros.
Reader: Longtime reader, always appreciate your column and thoughtful responses to some of the constant craziness. I never wanted to be one of those old people who seem to have nothing to do but complain, but here I am!
Hope and despair make unlikely neighbors, but they maintain an uneasy coexistence on one north 优蜜传媒 street.
"From the watery depths of the earth / Once more raise me up."
A recent report by EdSource shed light on what appears to be a most disturbing trend in preparing high school students for admission to California鈥檚 public universities.
Avid cyclist and angler Jonathan Vegas was thrilled last fall when he read that a local judge had issued an injunction requiring the city of 优蜜传媒 to keep enough water in the Kern River to support fish populations.
I have many fond memories of Pete Tittl, the longtime restaurant critic for 优蜜传媒, who retired recently. The first was 30 years ago when he told me to open a 401(k).
We鈥檝e come to expect stability in our congressional representatives.
Millions of Americans are eyeing upcoming Presidents Day sales to help stretch their budget. Although most major retailers will host sales during the long holiday weekend, not everything is a a good deal. Learning how to decipher the good deals from the duds is key to saving more money.
The sun was shining and blue skies reigned over the 57th World Ag Expo in Tulare County Tuesday. But inside seminar trailer No. 2, the mood was gloomy to dismal as panelists discussed the San Joaquin Valley鈥檚 water outlook.
If all goes according to plan, the city of McFarland will open its first legal marijuana dispensary this summer.
We've probably all experienced some degree of FOMO in our lives. FOMO, in case you live in an acronym-free world, is short for the Fear Of Missing Out. While it is not a new fear, it is certainly exacerbated by the prevalence and immediacy of social media: When we see the picture-perfect pos…
