FRESNO – The Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno County is currently running a year-long campaign that will help change the lives of the 6,000 youth it serves in its 17 clubs located in and around the Fresno area. The 13 for $13 in 2013 program is searching for 1,300 people who are willing to [...]

Chelsi Johnston is a Visalia native who attended Redwood High School and participated in activities such as mock trial and was a member of the Spanish Club, Drama Club, and Future Homemakers of America.  While attending California State University, Fresno, Johnston interned for Assembly Leader Mike Villines and Congressman George Radanovich.  After obtaining a bachelor’s [...]

CHERRY HILL, N.J., and PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Nearly half of small businesses expect their financial health to improve in 2013 and are confident that sales will increase over 2012, according to a new survey released today by TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®. The survey also found that nearly one-third of small business respondents plan [...]

NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index (Index) declined again in January for the third consecutive month.  The Index tracks consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending[i]. “The Index is down primarily due to slowing  increases of new home prices,” said Patricia Buckley, director, economic policy and analysis [...]

Leigh Burnside spent most of her childhood in the Fresno area, and attended Bullard High School, where she was a student athlete and played soccer.  She later enrolled at Stanford University and was a features writer for The Stanford Daily, and during her junior year she studied abroad in Paris, France for six months.  Around [...]

REEDLEY – At its January meeting, The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges took action to remove the warning status and reaffirm the accreditation of Reedley College. The Accrediting Commission reached its decision after a review of the institution’s Follow up Report and the report of the evaluation [...]

FRESNO – The Fresno Regional Foundation (FRF) is accepting applications for its 2013 Youth Grant Cycle and will be granting $206,000 to youth-serving organizations. Of this amount, $105,000 will be earmarked specifically for Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi, Orange Cove, and Reedley for youth and education. The grant amount range is $5,000 to $25,000. In addition, $10,000 will be [...]

Jarrod Lyman studied broadcast journalism at Northern Arizona University, and left after a couple of years to report the news at a network of radio stations in his hometown of Lake Havasu City in Arizona.  Several years later he got into his first tourism promotions and destination marketing organization, the Lake Havasu Convention and Visitors [...]

 OAKHURST - The California Carver’s Guild, along with the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau and Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce have announced the 6th Annual Oakhurst Woodcarver’s Rendezvous will take place April 14 through 21. The event will once again be held at the Oakhurst Community center. “This special week of carving is guaranteed to be fun [...]

TULARE – DeLaval Inc. out of Vernon Hills, IL has brought a number of its innovations to the World Ag Expo this year, but the one that is generating perhaps the most buzz is its Teat Spray Robot, which sprays a cow’s teats with a sanitary solution prior to milk extraction.  The robot brings consistency, [...]

FRESNO - On January 25 & 26 the Fresno Monsters Hockey Team held a Children’s Hospital Jersey Auction Weekend at Selland Arena.  The Monsters live auctioned the North American Hockey League team’s game-worn specialty jerseys featuring the Children’s Hospital logo and George the Giraffe throughout the games that weekend.  The Monsters have announced the team collected $10,000 for [...]

FRESNO –  Mayor Ashley Swearengin today said she has directed City Manager Mark Scott to implement a “deeper layoff plan” over the next two weeks to address financial challenges faced by the City because of a delay in implementing a residential solid waste franchise. Mayor Swearengin made her remarks in response to a determination by [...]

TULARE – Rice growers in central California are among those discovering the quicker, easier way the 24 foot-long GPS controlled GK Switchblade Scraper flattens out their land. “It’s a land plane land leveler that’s GPS controlled,” said Jim Wolf with GK Machine Inc., the company out of Donald, Ore.  that manufactures the blade.  “We can [...]

CLOVIS – Jared Eben of Clovis is currently one of 52 baseball fans competing for a spot in the 2013 MLB Fan Cave. All of the applicants submitted videos of themselves in a contest where the top 30 participants earn a trip to the MLB Fan Cave and earn the distinction of being a “Cave [...]

Daniel Castro is a transplant to Fresno.  Growing up in the rough neighborhood of East Los Angeles, he focused heavily on academics and earned admittance into M.I.T. in Boston.  While there, Castro earned a bachelor’s and master’s in engineering and computer science.  He then was accepted into the prestigious UC Berkeley School of Law, where [...]

TULARE – People from 90 different countries around the world are converging on the World Ag Expo in Tulare from today through Thursday looking for exhibitors whose products they wish to purchase and learning about ways to grow their crops more efficiently. Jerry Sinift, CEO of the International Agri-Center, said this year’s show is sold out with [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A national survey of women business owners (WBOs) conducted by Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: WWWW) and the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) found a pervasive sense of economic optimism, including a prediction by most WBOs (85 percent) that more women will become entrepreneurs in 2013 than in [...]

FRESNO – Michael Butler of Chase Flower Shop in Fresno, established in 1947, says Valentine’s Day is one of the two biggest days of the year for the floral shop, alongside Mother’s Day.  It’s also not surprising to hear that recent customers, most of whom are men, are picking up classic gifts often associated with [...]

Christina Musson is a native of Fresno, and graduated from Edison Computech School in 1999.  She then went to college at New York State University and its Tisch School of the Arts, studying musical theater.  A severe case of stage fright led her to pursue another career, this time in journalism. Her first job after [...]

HANFORD/SELMA – Families of same-day surgery patients in Hanford and Selma are now kept continuously informed about the status of their loved one.                                     Adventist Health’s new SurgiNet program provides electronic surgery progress updates on a status board in waiting rooms at Adventist Medical Centers in Hanford and Selma and at the KerrOutpatientCenter in Hanford. Families [...]