August  |   September   |   October  |   November October 2 – 25th annual Taste of Downtown Visalia from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $40. Tickets purchased need to be picked up at the event office located at 119 S. Church. For more info, visit downtownvisalia.com. October 5 – Ninth annual Wine & […]

Girl Scouts of Central California South attempt to break world record for most s’mores made simultaneously on Aug. 10 at Mooney Grove Park @TheSunGazette VISALIA – A Girl Scout holds the world record for cookie sales on a single day, and the local council is hoping an upcoming event will help them capture another record […]

A cross between dodge ball and archery, the game has become one of the most popular at McDermont X By Patrick Dillon @PDillon_SGN LINDSAY – A few months ago a new game idea came to the attention of the McDermont X in Lindsay. Carter Ashcraft went to a camp in Utah with his family, and while […]

@TheSunGazette VISALIA – The Rotary Craft Beer Brew Festival, a fundraiser for local scholarship programs, will be held on Thursday, Aug. 2, at the College of the Sequoias Porter Field House, 915 S. Mooney Blvd. The event begins with a VIP pre-reception from 5 to 6 p.m., featuring premium craft beer tastings for $100 per […]

Deadline to apply for Exeter Chamber’s scholarship, personal development program is Aug. 14 EXETER – If you are a young girl looking to earn a scholarship for college and find a way to both support and be more involved in your community, you might be the next Miss Exeter. The Miss Exeter program is a […]

@TheSunGazette VISALIA – Opinions about leadership in the U.S. government are many. Regardless of political leanings, almost everyone agrees that our government is corrupt at all levels and that power-brokers are calling the shots. “I wanted to write a story of hope that just might get the attention of a disheartened country,” says Visalia author […]

@TheSunGazette SACRAMENTO – It might not seem like it in the blistering July heat, but the cool sounds of swing, jazz, gospel and blues are on their way to Visalia. SBL Entertainment announced last week that come November the Fox Theatre is presenting An Evening with Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen at 8 p.m., […]

Visalia Chamber previews 10-day tour to Peru with slide show on Aug. 8 @TheSunGazette VISALIA – The mysteries of Machu Picchu remain. The Incan citadel atop a mountain still swirls with unknowns half of a millennium after it was constructed. Home to ritual sacrifices, terraced agriculture and untouched by Western civilization until the 20th Century, […]

@TheSunGazette VISALIA – The hardest part of the nonprofit biz is finding the money to make it work. And while most organizations won’t leap off a building for cash, The Source LGBT+ Center from Visalia certainly will. The Source LGBT+ Center, serving Tulare and Kings County, announced their next big fundraising program, and the beginning […]

@TheSunGazette TULARE COUNTY – This weekend is your last chance to catch the Tulare County Office of Education’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. The popular rock musical about Seymour (played by Redwood High School’s Parker Chalabian), a hapless florist shop worker who raises a man-eating plant from outer space, is being staged in the […]