Exeter News

From musicians to puppies to Hawaiian shave ice cones, the crowds that spent Independence Day at Exeter's annual 4th of July celebration in the City Park enjoyed the fruits of the labor of community volunteers, and the chance to see friends and family.

Law enforcement agents from the federal, state, and county destroyed more than 25,000 marijuana plants on Monday and Tuesday.

A county-led sting involving state and federal law enforcement resulted in the seizure and eradication this week of more than 26,000 marijuana plants worth an estimated $106 million on the street if allowed to mature from federal land east of Exeter.

More than 2,000 adoptable animals were euthanized at the Valley Oak SPCA last year because of a lack of space, officials say.

Fireworks went on sale at noon Sunday at 52 locations in Tulare County ' including six in rural Visalia, three in Tulare and seven in Exeter, county fireworks officials reported.

Tulare police made four arrests during a prostitution sting this week. The sting, which ended Thursday, came after police received complaints of prostitution in the 700 and 800 blocks of South K Street and West Inyo Avenue.

An exhibition of paintings by Varian Mace and Manuel Abad will open on July 11 at The Courthouse Gallery of the Arts at 125 South B Street in Exeter.

Tamara Tollison, senior queen of this year's week-long Holy Spirit Festa in Visalia, was understandably excited about her participation in this year's event.

Spending countless hours together for many married couples would be difficult. Just don't say anything of the sort to Nick and Sonya Diane Jones.

A 14-year-old boy from Southern California drowned Wednesday afternoon after he slipped on a rock and fell into the water at Angel Falls near Bass Lake in Madera County.

Summer squash is like the bunny rabbit of vegetables: It will just keep producing until it's finally exhausted, said Kenneth Amann, owner of O So Fresh Organics in Exeter.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of installing faulty fire protection systems at 34 businesses in Tulare County, the Contractors State License Board reported Monday.

The Portuguese tradition of honoring a sainted queen's charitable gestures to the poor will be renewed, beginning Monday, during the Pentecostal Park of Visalia's Holy Spirit Celebration.

Four medical practitioners in Visalia have opened a new walk-in clinic, Immediate Care Center, to help fill a hole they say is missing in local medical care.

In the market for a short-line railroad? The Tulare County Association of Governments has been trying to save a 40-mile stretch of rail line for more than a year.

An Exeter man said a riding lawn mower was taken Friday from the area of his home.

Tulare County Citizens for Responsible Growth has named Joanne Wright as its new executive assistant.

Early Friday morning someone broke into a vehicle and stole a stereo and other items.

Peninsula Packaging, LLC uses the equivalent of 1.2 billion plastic bottles annually in its production of plastic packaging at its plants in Exeter, California and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The search for the body of an Exeter man who presumably drowned in Sequoia National Forest last month may not resume for weeks because of raging waters in Madera County's Chiquito Creek, authorities said Monday.