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Victoria “Vickie” Ortiz is a Fairmead community advocate and member of Fairmead Community and Friends, a local organization dedicated to supporting health justice, safer environments, and community resource development.

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A new affordable housing community opened in Patterson this month, adding 138 rental units in a community that’s seen rising housing prices as a Bay Area commuter town.

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When former slave turned U.S. Naval officer Col. Allensworth founded the town that bears his name in the southwestern corner of Tulare County in 1908, water was gushing just below the surface fed by the Tulare Lake, at one time the largest lake west of Mississippi. The town, located just a few miles from the former lake bed in Corcoran, was prospering with its train station and ample supply of water but its success, and water supply, would begin to run out.

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Thousands of wells that bring water to San Joaquin Valley homes are at risk of drying up this summer, leaving families without running water for drinking, cleaning and bathing.

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As part of the mass vaccination event that begins on Sunday at the Porterville Fairgrounds, a health and resource fair will be held on Sunday at the fairgrounds as well.

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President Biden signed into law $350 billion in state and local government COVID-19 funding relief as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. The problem is little — if any — of it is directed to the water districts, sanitation districts, fire protection districts, recreation and park districts, and other special districts that keep our rural communities running here in the San Joaquin Valley and throughout the state.

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The answer to housing some of Visalia’s least stationary residents may be to provide them with their own mobile home. Homeless advocacy organization Salt+Light unveiled the latest version of its homeless village at the March 15 Visalia City Council meeting.

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The Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 this week on a conditional use permit and affordable housing regulatory agreement that will bring 52 modular homes to Goshen for affordable permanent housing.

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Hundreds of cars lined up on a rough road next to Planada’s Bear Creek Apartments Thursday afternoon, the site of the first mobile COVID vaccination clinic for Merced County ag and farm
workers.

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Many people dream of having a home. A place to call their own and a space to create memories that will last a lifetime. For Nataly Herrera and her family, that dream will soon become reality.

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