Ivanhoe News

Distributors of medical marijuana in Visalia and unincorporated areas of Tulare County are receiving increased scrutiny this week as officials crack down on such facilities.

One hundred and fifty years of newspapers contain stories large and small about the achievements, failures and foibles of the people of a region.

Tulare County officials will explore the expansion of free transportation for at-risk youth today during a workshop in the Tulare County Board of Supervisors chambers, 2800 W. Burrel Ave., Visalia.

Directors of Oroville Wyandotte Irrigation District learned last night they will have to acquire almost 9,000 acres of land in order to construct the South Fork Water and Power Project.

A move by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to limit medical marijuana operations in unincorporated areas could shutter the five organizations that provide the drug to local patients.

Some operators of medial marijuana dispensaries in Tulare County said they plan to ask the county's Board of Supervisors to rewrite a series of proposed ordinances that they say could harm their businesses as well as the people who smoke and ingest the plants to treat pain and other ailments.

Tulare County sheriff's deputies on Thursday responded to an Ivanhoe-area burglary in which $16,200 in cash and jewelry and other property were reported stolen.

A 27-year-old Ivanhoe man was sentenced Thursday to more than 22 years in prison after being found guilty of weapons charges in a 2008 shooting that prosecutors said was meant to kill the man's ex-wife and her new husband.

Sudden cardiac arrest kills as many as 325,000 Americans every year ... only 5 percent survive when it strikes.

Tulare County Sheriff's gang detectives arrested Thursday three people suspected of illegal drug and weapon possession.

With a hand-held video camera, a computer and 800 cows, Barbara Martin of Lemoore, Calif., is letting the world into her life as a dairy operator.

Rumors are circulating around the College of the Sequoias that the physical education department for students with disabilities may be in jeopardy.

Mitre, Valladares - To Susana Mitre and Rogelio Valladares of Hanford on Sept. 13, a girl, 8 lbs., 11 oz.

Here's a government program that gets it right: The LOOP bus. Now in its third year, Visalia's LOOP bus, operated by the city's Parks and Recreation Department, keeps rolling along with free transportation for kids to and from their schools and neighborhoods to the city's recreation centers.

Installing lighted crosswalks at three Visalia elementary schools: $319,680. Building a museum to feature contributions of farmworkers and diverse ethnic groups: $1.4 million.

Tulare County Library officials will spend $319,900 to spruce up three rural branches while the system faces $157,786 in budget cuts.

A Strathmore grower was robbed of thousands of dollars worth of citrus, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reported.

Opening arguments began in the case of Alfredo Rodriguez, 27, accused of shooting at his ex-wife's new husband in November 2008 outside the couple's Ivanhoe home.

A year ago this week, Erica Paine walked into a room of her Ivanhoe house about 10 p.m. and discovered her 62-year-old mother was not breathing.

Victor Box can tell a visitor just about anything about Ivanhoe. As a 23-year resident, the retired aerospace engineer and Korean War veteran can identify the town's first building.