Porterville News

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.