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Porterville, California is located in Tulare County. Zip codes in Porterville, CA include 93257, and 93258. The median home price in Porterville is $149,900 which is roughly $84/per square foot. More Porterville information.

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2 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

Crime blotter 5/22/13

Information below is provided to The Recorder by the Porterville Police Department.

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6 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

Local soldier escorted home by bikers

Bikers decked out with leather vests, boots, bandanas and scraggly beards met up with local soldier Steven "Stevo" Pierson in Bakersfield and escorted him to Porterville as a welcome home present to his friends, family and girlfriend.

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10 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

Summer activities at the Porterville Library

"We have something going on every day," library assistant Sandy Farnsworth said.

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10 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

Is Porterville joining the technology age

Technology was one of the main themes at Tuesday night's city council meeting. Two items on the agenda were dedicated to the continued discussion of bringing Porterville up to date with today's technology by introducing online vouchers and mobile applications for the citizens of Porterville.

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17 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

Story told of former Recorder owner

Local icon and Porterville Evening Recorder editor, publisher and owner Graham Dean was the subject of Porterville native Karen Harriger's project "Dean of the Paper" which will be published in serial format starting in today's edition of The Recorder on the Heritage page.

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21 hrs ago | Porterville Recorder

PC notebook: Lopez is CVC's top defensive player

Porterville College baseball coach Jake Kiser announced that three of his players were voted to the 2013 All-Central Valley Conference Team.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Porterville Recorder

Mission will take men deep into the African wild

Two local men are traveling into the wild - to a place where no white man has ever been seen by the natives.

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Porterville Recorder

Butterfield Charter graduates ready to fly away

Loud cheering and whistling almost drowned out the "Pomp and Circumstance" being played at the Frank "Buck" Shaffer Theatre inside the Porterville Memorial Auditorium as the Butterfield Charter High School Class of 2013 - dressed in brown and white caps and gowns - walked down the auditorium aisles during the school's graduation ceremony Tuesday ... (more)

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Porterville Recorder

Family burned out of apartment

A small plume of grayish black smoke was drifting above the building, and flames could be seen shooting out of the windows when Porterville firefighters arrived, but a quick response snuffed out the fire before it could get too serious.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Porterville Recorder

Keeping to goal

I wish to thank the editor and powers to be for publishing my letter I wrote last week .

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Sat May 18, 2013

Porterville Recorder

Crime blotter 5/14/13

Information below is provided to The Recorder by the Porterville Police Department.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Porterville Recorder

HMA students awarded $708,560 in scholarships

More than $700,000 was awarded to 42 seniors Tuesday night during Harmony Magnet Academy's Second Annual Scholarship Ceremony.

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Porterville Recorder

A stroll down memory lane

The Fabulous Studio Band will be presenting its annual concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Frank "Buck" Shaffer Theatre inside the Porterville Memorial Auditorium.

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Wed May 15, 2013

The Fresno Bee

Updates: Bad news for Fresno-area drivers: gasoline tops $4 a gallon

The average cost of a gallon of unleaded was $4 in Fresno, and $3.99 in the Visalia-Tulare-Porterville area, according to AAA of Northern California's monthly gas price report.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Porterville Recorder

Close to $2 million awarded to PHS - home of scholars and athletes

Porterville High School's class of 2013 does not do anything small. That was evident Monday night when the graduating senior class attending Porterville High School's Annual Scholarship Night at the Frank "Buck" Shaffer Theatre inside the Porterville Memorial Auditorium walked away with close to $2 million in scholarships and awards.

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Porterville Recorder

Porterville fair will be bigger and better

This will be the third year the Porterville Fair will be held at the new fairgrounds and it will be better than ever, according to Fair board president Mitch Brown.

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Porterville Recorder

Pair held on drug, child endangerment charges

A Porterville couple police claim were selling drugs out of their South Westwood Avenue home were not only arrested Friday, three children in the home were turned over to Child Welfare Services.

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Porterville Recorder

Crime blotter 5/11/13

Information below is provided to The Recorder by the Porterville Police Department.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Porterville Recorder

Hotel is key to downtown revitalization

Even though Gov. Jerry Brown has all but killed redevelopment, the city of Porterville is still moving forward with the purchase and eventual demolition of the old Porterville Hotel.

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Porterville Recorder

Tons of donations feed hungry

Gael Weber and Sally Prado drove around Porterville on Saturday in a green GMC pickup truck looking for mail trucks.

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