Porterville News

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

On Wednesday, the 65th edition of the Porterville Fair will begin and like the 64 fairs before it, the focus will be on kids.

A distinguished figure in the realms of education, community service and community leadership, Gary Ingraham's prolific service to Porterville has catapulted him to be recognized as the Porterville Chamber of Commerce's "Man of the Year." Ingraham, better known to people by his various titles, not only manages the bulk of how and what is taught in ... (more)

The inaugural College and Career Mentor conference - the only of it's kind in California - was held at Porterville Church of the Nazarene and offered the students an opportunity to learn from, and listen to, business professionals.

The Granite Hills High School Grizzly Band, under the direction of Kenny Ormonde, is doing something today previous GHHS band members have not done - performing in the "Happiest Place on Earth." For the first time in the school's history, the band will have the opportunity to march down Main Street Disneyland, as a prelude to Mickey's Soundsational ... (more)

The Granite Hills High School seniors received 12 scholarship awards each - more than any other student in the history of the school during the annual Granite Hills High School Scholarship Night that netted the class of 2013 close to $1 million in scholarships.

"After careful thought and deliberation, the board unanimously concluded that Hefner was the right fit for the organization," said board chairman Kent Sorrells.

Born and raised in Woodland, a town northwest of Sacramento, similar in size to Porterville, Lingberg graduated in December from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

The cities are ranked by measuring on low-lying ozone pollution and their short- and long-term particle pollution.

Fourteen angels came to the aid of a Porterville woman whose arm began pinned under the back bumper of a pickup truck in a collision Wednesday at Second Street and Mill Avenue.