Question: What is the history of the Belmont Inn that was on the northeast corner of Belmont and Cedar avenues? I recall attending wedding receptions there in the 1950s. – A. Gougasian, Clovis Answer: The Belmont Inn and Motel was built in about 1946 by Dr. Doris Hicks Wilson and Burt Wilson. George Ehikian bought [...]

The Buchanan High girls posted the Central Section’s best team performance at today’s state cross country championships at Woodward Park, finishing third led by Macy Bricks in seventh in Division I girls. The Buchanan boys finished fifth but had the section’s top individual finish, fourth by CJ Albertson. Redwood High senior Justin Vilhauer’s hopes for [...]

VISALIA — Rich Hammond stood in front of his Clovis High football team and delivered a passionate speech about playing games in December, the ones players and coaches never forget. For the first time in eight years, the Cougars will get that opportunity. Fifth-seeded Clovis pulled ahead with 1:49 remaining in the game on Donnell [...]

Highlights from the second round of Central Section football playoffs. Click here for all the Round 2 playoff results. Garces 34, Clovis North 21 The visiting, seventh-seeded Broncos led by one at intermission but gave up 28 points in the second half to fall in D-II. Rams running back Jalen Sykes shredded Clovis North (5-7) [...]

There’s a beautiful scoreboard standing behind the east end zone at Buchanan’s Veterans Memorial Stadium — bright red digital numbers on a black background — but it must lie. Surely it wasn’t Clovis West High 14, Stockdale 14 here at halftime Friday night, was it? Never did this truly feel like an even matchup and [...]

When Brandon Graspointner was in elementary school, he helped hand french fries out the drive-through window of a McDonald’s his family owned. Now at age 26, Graspointner has embarked on his own venture, opening the fifth of 16 planned Qdoba Mexican Grill restaurants in the Central Valley. The newest Qdoba restaurant opened Tuesday on the [...]