Apr 30 2016 - 2:07pm
The beautiful Sarah Mooney Museum has housed and shared the early history of our area for the past 42 years. In 1973, Sarah’s oldest granddaughter and her husband, Marie and Buzz Blakely, donated the property at 542 West D Street to the Lemoore Chamber of Commerce to be kept as a Museum in honor of Sarah Mooney. Keep reading...
With a possible life in the balance, Lemoore’s vaunted Volunteer Fire Department responded within minutes to an apartment fire at the Lemoore Arms Apartments, across from the Best Buy Market. Joining the Lemoore Volunteers were units from the Kings County Fire Department, both of whom arrived on the scene shortly after the call came in about 8:20 p.m. Friday night. Keep reading...
There were plenty of smiles, tears, plenty of awards, and even a few one liners at Wednesday’s West Hills College women’s basketball team’s end-of-season banquet. The Golden Eagles recently concluded their best season ever, compiling an impressive 19-10 record and finishing second in the Central Valley Conference. Keep reading...
Dinner patrons and fans of the arts got quite a show Friday night as the Lemoore High School Choir Department put on its annual extravaganza celebrating music and culture known as the annual LHS Choir Dinner Show. Keep reading...
A packed house at the Tachi Hotel and Casino Bingo Hall Friday night watched as Tim Wahl became Lemoore’s latest Citizen of the Year. Joining Wahl in earning recognition were Frances Perkins of the Lemoore Best Western Hotel, tabbed as this year’s Business of the Year, and the Lemoore Future Farmers of America, named the Organization of the Year. Keep reading...
The Lemoore Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday the selections of the new Lemoore Citizen of the Year, Business of the Year and Organization of the Year. Earning a well-deserved honor as the community’s newest Citizen of the Year is longtime teacher and community leader Tim Wahl. Keep reading...
Lemoore’s Fresh & Easy neighborhood market will be closing its doors soon, despite surviving an earlier series of closures that left only stores in Lemoore and Reedley open for business in the Valley. Keep reading...
The ringing in of a new century on January 1, 1900 was an exciting time for the community of Lemoore. Just 23 years earlier, Lemoore was officially named when the railroad plotted a new community along its western spur from Goshen. In 1877, the few businesses grouped along what was to become Lemoore Avenue and Bush Street quickly purchased lots near the railroad tracks and reestablished their enterprises to the north. In no time the business district and the population doubled in size. Keep reading...