The City of Lemoore’s newest employee, Andi Welsh, will have her hands full on Tuesday night as she and the five councilmembers tackle an ambitious agenda, which includes her coming out party as well as a possible rejection of an expensive water line for a proposed BMX track and a look at a draft proposal to reconfigure the Highway 41 and Bush Street interchange. Keep reading...
Lemoore has a new city manager on board. Councilmembers voted 5-0 during Tuesday’s council meeting to hire Andi Welsh, currently an assistant to the town manager in Gilbert, Arizona. Welsh will be the city’s first-ever female city manager and this will be her first job heading up a city. Keep reading...
The Lemoore Trinity Association will celebrate its annual Portuguese Festa in honor of the Holy Spirit on Sunday, May 31. Participants in the parade will meet at 9 a.m. at O’Doherty Hall, 884 N. Lemoore Avenue in Lemoore where a procession led by Nancy Corona Blum, President of the Lemoore Festa, will walk to St. Peter’s Catholic Church at 870 N. Lemoore Avenue for the 10 a.m. Mass. Keep reading...
Lemoore Middle College High School, led by Zachary Osterland, won the 33rd Annual Kings County Academic Decathlon, held Saturday at Corcoran High School. The local Lemoore Union High School District School, housed at West Hills Community College Lemoore, won the annual event in a cakewalk, amassing some 45,031 points, well ahead of second-place Corcoran High School’s 35,975 points.
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Lemoore Middle College High School, led by Zachary Osterland, won the 33rd Annual Kings County Academic Decathlon, held Saturday at Corcoran High School. The local Lemoore Union High School District School, housed at West Hills Community College Lemoore, won the annual event in a cakewalk, amassing some 45,031 points, well ahead of second-place Corcoran High School’s 35,975 points. Keep reading...
In the early hours of September 15, Charles Coburn, and with his guardian brother, former Lemoore High School Superintendent Bill Black, arrived at Fresno International Airport to start a three-day Honor Flight to Washington D.C. Charles, 19 years older than his brother Bill, joined the Army after graduating from high school in 1944, and by that Fall, found himself in the middle of the war in General Patten’s 97th Infantry in Germany. Keep reading...
Hanford’s Bill Gundacker, a Lemoore High School 1960 alum and member of the Kings County School Board, spent a few weeks back east with wife Jeanne and friends Rosemary and Dr. Everett Cheney recently, taking in many of the historical sites associated with our founding fathers. Keep reading...
The Lemoore Chamber of Commerce honored a pair of Kings County heavyweights in the field of agriculture at its 20th annual Kings County Salute to Agriculture. The Miya family of Miya Farms was honored as the 2014 Agriculturist of the Year while the University of California Cooperative Extension and UC Farm Advisor Dr. Bob Beede were honored as the Ag Supporter of the Year. Keep reading...
The Lemoore Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that Miya Farms and University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) are this year's honorees for the 20th Annual Kings County Salute to Agriculture Banquet. The Lemoore Chamber will host the event on Friday, September 12, 2014, at Jack Stone's Barn. Keep reading...
It was three days of memories, three days of cheers, and three days of tears. World War II veteran John Salas of Fresno, and a native of Hanford, took the trip of a lifetime last week and was honored for his wartime service as he visited Washington D.C. as part of an Central Valley Honor Flight program. While in Washington he was one of 67 local World War II veterans who got to see the majestic Memorial built for veterans just like Salas, one of many dwindling survivors of the "Greatest Generation." Keep reading...
