Despite a legal setback this week from the state Supreme Court, Immanuel Schools is set to resume battle Tuesday morning in Fresno County Superior Court Judge D. Tyler Tharpe's courtroom. Fresno County seeks a preliminary injunction to close the school — which has been open since Aug. 13 in defiance...
CRMC Faces Friday Deadline To Resolve Labor Issue or Lose Level 1 Trauma Status
Fresno County EMS Director Daniel Lynch has notified Community Regional Medical Center that it has until 5 p.m. Friday to provide the staffing necessary to retain its level 1 trauma center status. At issue is a CRMC's relationship with Central California Faculty Medical Group covering 28 physicians in 12 specialties that ended...
State Supreme Court Rules Against Immanuel, Clovis Christian Schools
The state Supreme Court denied a petition to keep schools open and overrule the state's emergency order closing them down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two private Valley schools, Immanuel Schools of Reedley and Clovis Christian Schools, were among nine plaintiffs seeking to overturn the order. The court did not hold...
Creek Fire Creating Own Weather System, Havoc for Firefighters
As nearly 1,000 firefighters from across the state are battling the Creek Fire, they are encountering another problem — a fire that is creating its own weather system. This is in addition to the hot, dry weather and an abundance of timber and underbrush. "The other problem we are dealing...
Newsom Supports Fresno County’s Effort to Close Defiant School
Governor Gavin Newsom supports Fresno County's efforts to shut down a defiant Reedley school. Fresno County filed legal action against Immanuel Schools to shut it down. The private K-12 school opened on Aug. 13, defying state and county health orders that prohibit schools from offering full, in-person instruction when the...
Immanuel Schools Can Remain Open, Judge Rules
Pandemonium broke out in front of the B.F. Sisk Courthouse in downtown Fresno, after hundreds of supporters of Immanuel Schools learned that a judge ruled the private school can remain open. While only a fraction remained for the result than showed up earlier in the day, parents, students and other...
Judge to Decide Immanuel Schools’ Fate. Brandau Opposes Closure.
The county is seeking legal action to prevent a private Reedley school from staying open. One supervisor says that is the wrong move. Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., Fresno County, through its public health department, will ask for a temporary restraining order to prevent Immanuel Schools from in-person teaching. "Immanuel High...
Flu Shots Are Here, but Is It Too Early To Get One?
Pharmacies have already started their ad campaigns urging you to get a flu shot. And, CVS and Walgreens began giving shots this week in Fresno and Clovis. Health officials in California are concerned about the confluence of the coronavirus and flu, noting a substantial decline in child vaccination rates since...
Kerman Farmer Lost Entire Crew To Skaggs Bridge Park COVID-19 Outbreak
A Kerman farmer says that so many of his employees were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak at Skaggs Bridge Park he was nearly shut down. Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco says more than 1,000 people crowded into Skaggs Bridge Park on the San Joaquin River during the weekend of August...
California Farming Country Buckles Under COVID-19. Will Pandemic Make or Break the Valley?
By Dale Kalser, Manuela Tobias, and Tony Bizjak She was afraid of catching the coronavirus – so fearful, in fact, that she switched jobs to pack tomatoes for an employer who seemed to be taking the right precautions. But Maria Claudia Garcia got sick anyway. A farmworker from Venezuela living in the San...