Brett Frazier is the youngest Madera mayor in history.  He was elected to the Madera City Council in November of 2010 with the most votes of any candidate running in the three-spot race.  He is a Madera native and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Santa Barbara. In addition to his [...]

Kurtis Willey spent most of his childhood in Fresno, and later on lived in Clovis and graduated from Buchanan High School.  He then attended Fresno City College and California State University, Fresno, where he earned a degree in accounting in 2009.  After graduation he started as an intern at CPA firm Slater Moffat Associates, and [...]

FRESNO – In another effort to give back to the community, the Fresno Monsters hockey team will be auctioning off special jerseys during games held Jan. 25 and 26 at Selland Arena, with the proceeds going to Children’s Hospital Central California. Fans will be able to stop by the Fan Assistance Center to register for [...]

Reggie Ellis has been a journalist in California for over 17 years, and is the current publisher and managing editor of the Foothills Sun-Gazette.  He also oversaw the launch of the Central Valley’s first full pay-wall newspaper website, fsgnews.com, and is the founder of Central Valley Medical Magazine. Ellis was raised in Hanford, and attended [...]

FRESNO – The San Francisco Giants announced that they will take their 2012 world champions trophy on public tour, including a stop at Chukchansi Park in downtown Fresno on Tuesday, February 5. This will be the second public trophy tour held in the past three years and will feature both the 2012 and 2010 trophies. [...]

FRESNO – Jack Woolf will be honored at the Fresno State Madden Library’s 13th Annual Donor Recognition Reception, Friday, Jan. 18 in the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery on the library’s second floor. The event will start with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception at 6 p.m., followed by the donor recognition ceremony at 8 p.m. “We [...]

FRESNO – Two dental faculty members teaching in the residency program on the Community Regional campus were inducted as fellows of the American College of Dentists, and are now recognized as being in the top tier of dentists nationwide. Michelle Asselin, DDS, FACD, and Rosaura Pacheco, DDS, FACD received the honor after the American College [...]

Elana Landau is a University of Los Angeles, California graduate with a B.A. in political science.  She then earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.  While at UCLA she worked as the quality assurance coordinator – Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a non-profit organization chaired by Steven Spielberg.  While there, Landau [...]

Daniel Hartwig grew up in Easton, and obtained his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in 2003 and his MBA from California State University, Fresno in 2006.  He spent his childhood working on his family’s vineyard operation. After graduating college, he worked for Paramount Citrus as an analyst from 2006 to 2007.  He joined the Nisei [...]

FRESNO – Fresno Food Expo and the Center for International Trade Development, State Center Community College District held a special export training workshop at Baker, Peterson & Franklin Tuesday morning to help Expo participants learn more about exporting their products to foreign lands. Foreign trade experts from Mexico, Canada and China were on hand to [...]

FRESNO – The California State University Board of Trustees will begin the search next month for a new president of Fresno State to succeed President John D. Welty who is retiring after serving as president of the university since 1991. The first meeting of the search committee will be held in an open forum from 10 [...]

Pha Mouavangsou came to America from Laos in 1978 and is one of nine siblings.  He obtained an associate’s degree in technology from Heald College, a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from DeVry University, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno.  Until recently, Mouavangsou was the division director [...]

TULARE – Tulare Regional Medical Center Auxiliary is hosting a volunteer orientation for two new programs:  Customer Service Liaison and Call Back Volunteer.  The volunteer positions support the enhanced customer service goals of Tulare Regional Medical Center. Customer Service Liaisons work in pairs at the Information Desk in the hospital’s main lobby.  Volunteer Liaisons support [...]

FRESNO – The Fresno Fuego will partner with six local youth soccer clubs starting in 2013 to create an identification system that will help develop local youths into future Fuego team members. This collaboration will allow the Fuego staff to directly identify local players within these clubs, working toward achieving the Fuego vision of providing [...]

Chris Bridger had wanted to be a firefighter from a young age, and took classes during his senior year at Clovis High School to become a wildland firefighter.  The summer following his high school graduation he began work with the U.S. Department of Forestry, and went through courses at the Fresno City College Fire Academy.  [...]

FRESNO – While new Fresno City Council members Steve Brandau and Paul Caprioglio took the oath of office this morning, outgoing members Andreas Borgeas and Larry Westerlund were saying farewell to their colleagues. Westerlund had represented District 4 since Jan. 2005, and spent seven years and one month in service to the City of Fresno, [...]

Dallas Neumann-Johns is a graduate of California State University, Fresno and holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology with an emphasis in law enforcement.  While in college, she participated in intercollegiate athletics, representing the Bulldogs in the heptathlon and the pole vault.  She graduated from San Joaquin College of Law in 2006. In 2008, Neumann-Johns became [...]

FRESNO – Several tourism entities and representatives from three National Parks unveiled a new cooperative promotion highlighting Kings, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks during a press conference Tuesday, Jan. 8 at Fresno/Yosemite International Airport. The program, called Majestic Mountain Loop, will help visitors looking to experience some of California’s most popular attractions, was created by [...]

Cinderela Co and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 14, not long after her father had died of cancer.  Her mother, who was a nurse, moved Co and her siblings to Las Vegas after a short time in the central California area.  Co herself earned a nursing degree at the University [...]

WASHINGTON – A new award has been added by the U.S. Small Business Administration in celebration of National Small Business Week 2013.  The Small Business Exporter of the Year award will recognize a small business that is successfully engaged in exporting.  A national award winner will be selected from among state award winners from each of the 50 states, the [...]