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- Granite Hills tops Academic Decathlon again
- School will represent Tulare County at state competition
- Porterville’s Granite Hills High School will once again represent Tulare County at the state level of Academic Decathlon after earning top honors at this weekend’s county competition. Schools both large and small competed Saturday and... Full story
- Measure H: Finger pointing, citizen oversight falls short
- One of the selling points proponents used to help convince Porterville voters to pass Measure H in 2005 was that expenditures of funds collected through the additional half cent sales tax would have citizen oversight.But nearly everyone familiar... Full story
- Success Dam among supervisors’ federal appropriation requests
- County supervisors will vote on Tuesday on a handful of federal appropriation requests, including $10 million in funding for the Lake Success Dam Seismic Remediation project. The money would go toward completing the design of the new dam, acquiring... Full story
- Car rams apartment, residents evacuated
- Just after 4 p.m. Monday, a car rammed an apartment at 475 N. Murry St., shearing a gas line and blocking traffic for more than an hour. The driver, a female whose name, age and city of residence were unknown as of press time, was taken to Sierra... Full story
- Porterville woman, 24, injured in car crash
- Alochol was a factor in the car crash that injured a 24-year-old Porterville woman this weekend near Waukena, the California Highway Patrol reports. Patty Castro was a passenger in 1991 Toyota that veered into oncoming traffic and collided head on... Full story
- Santa Barbara couple accidentally fire gun in Motel 6
- An illegal AK-47 was among the five guns and 500 rounds of ammunition found this weekend in a Motel 6 room, according to a Porterville Police Department press release. A Santa Barbara couple was in the motel room, located at 935 W. Morton Ave. and... Full story
- Lindsay: Grove Theater use public hearing set for today
- Sewer rates on agenda
- LINDSAY —A public hearing will be held Tuesday during Lindsay’s City Council meeting regarding use of the former Grove Theater at 242 S. Elmwood. A conditional use permit was given to the building owner for special events such as... Full story
- Proposed federal education budget could revamp NCLB
- Funding specifics remain vague
- Changes to the controversial No Child Left Behind program — hinted at by the Obama administration’s education budget proposal for fiscal year 2011 — could thoroughly alter the way education funding is distributed in California. A... Full story
- Measure H: Conflict lingers over city’s literacy efforts
- Editor’s note: We continue our series about Measure H with this article about the literacy component. If you missed the first two articles in this series, they are available at recorderonline.com.During the time Measure H money has helped keep... Full story
- Landscape costs could increase for 350 plus
- The city is attempting to recover a deficit shared by landscape management districts totaling $46,775 that are not expected to be recouped in at least the next two years. The more than 350 property owners belonging to the 10 districts with... Full story
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