The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that Yosemite National Park will modify its entrance fees beginning June 2018 to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs that enhance the visitor experience. Effective June 2018 the park entrance fee will be $ 35 per vehicle or $ 20 per …
Read More »New Novel By Fresno Author Explores Japanese-American Experience In WWII
The new historical novel “Tears of Honor” by Fresno author James Ardaiz documents the experience of Japanese-Americans during WWII. The sweeping narrative includes two boys from Calwa who are forced into an internment camp, and ultimately show their loyalty to America by joining the Army and fighting in the war. …
Read More »This Parlier Family Doesn’t Want You To Experience What They Did – Three Generations Got COVID-19
Brianna Cisneros is the youngest of four siblings. On this cool December evening, she’s sitting at a table in her backyard with her two sisters, her brother and her father. A dog barks nearby, there’s music playing from a neighbor’s house down the street. Signs of normalcy in a not …
Read More »Fresno To Gila River – One Reporter’s Experience At The Former Gila River Internment Camp
This year is the 78th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. That’s the order that sent Japanese Americans to internment camps in 1942. Many Japanese Americans in Fresno County were sent to the Gila River Indian Community in the Arizona desert, including local baseball legend Kenichi Zenimura. Reporter …
Read More »Lemoore Native American Students Experience ‘Egregiously High’ Rates of Suspension, Expulsion
A recently published study says that Native American students in California experience suspension rates that are twice as high as the state average. The same study also found that expulsion rates of those students are particularly high in Kings County. The Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative and the Community …
Read More »Spanish Speakers Experience Discrimination At Valley Food Pantries
We’re standing in a fridge that’s the size of a two bedroom apartment at Food Link Tulare County. The ice box is stacked with produce and dairy products that will soon be in the fridges of Tulare families. Development director for the food bank, Nicole Celaya, says some families who …
Read More »Citizens’ academy gives locals a chance to experience Merced police training
The Merced Police Department has begun it’s newest session of the Citizens Police Academy, a chance to experience parts of the same training that police officers go through and learn … Click to Continue »
Read More »Children living in Central Valley more likely to experience stress
Norma Barragan recalls that, growing up in South Merced, her family’s small home was, at times, extra crowded. Her nieces and nephews lived with them, putting 10 people in a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced County students get courtroom experience in mock trial
High school students from around the county on Wednesday played the parts of prosecutors, defense attorneys and witnesses during a fictional human-trafficking case heard at the Courthouse Museum in the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced County Rescue Mission and community give Christmas experience to hundreds
Around 600 Merced community members made their way to the American Legion Hall on Christmas Eve, hoping for full bellies and something for their kids to open over the weekend, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Outgoing county supervisors take with them decades of experience
Tuesday marked an emotional day for the Merced County Board of Supervisors as three members with a combined 40 years of service commemorated their final board meeting. District 1 Supervisor … Click to Continue »
Read More »Robbed Los Banos Pokemon Go player recounts experience
Los Banos resident Joshua Montez recalls him and his friend getting threatened and robbed while playing Pokemon Go early morning Sunday, July 31, 2016 … Click to Continue »
Read More »Debbie Croft: Expanding my vocabulary – one life experience at a time
I remember being little and asking my mom about words I hadn’t heard before. Immunization. Conjunctivitis. Flying at the age of 5, from American shores across the Atlantic, brought more … Click to Continue »
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