16th Annual Empty Bowls Fund Raiser hopes to provide 450,000 more meals so no neighbor goes to sleep hungry Fresno, Calif. — The Community Food Bank will host its 16th Annual Empty Bowls Benefit Dinner at the Clovis Veteran Memorial Building on Thursday, September 8th at 5 p.m.  This dinner couples fundraising with a night [...]

A new 15,000-square-foot indoor baseball and softball training center opens at 10 a.m. Saturday in Clovis. TNL Diamond Academy — TNL stands for “the next level” — is at 788 Sierra Ave., near Clovis Avenue. It features 11 batting cages and eight bullpens for practicing pitching. In November, a video analysis machine will be added [...]

Michael Baker sits in a Central High office, stretches his long left arm, points to the northeast and expresses a longtime “us versus them” mentality that has simmered in this west-side district. “Them” would be the five Clovis Unified schools that combine with Central to form one of the state’s best athletic leagues, the Tri-River [...]

Its back to the wall, Fresno State athletics is going for broke — again. The Bulldogs athletic program is entering its final year in the Western Athletic Conference. Kicking off this key transitional season is the unusual football opener Saturday at Candlestick Park against California. The nonconference game is being put together by an East [...]

A typical football fan watching a kickoff follows the flight of the ball and the player returning it. At Fresno State, this is a mistake. It’s here that the value of an admission ticket — at least when the Bulldogs are kicking off — is best spent focusing on No. 30. His name is Patrick [...]

Clovis police issued 116 tickets last week in the department’s back-to-school detail. There were 51 tickets issued for cellphone use and 23 for speeding. Other tickets were for seat-belt and child-restraint-seat violations, entering crosswalks with pedestrians and illegal parking. Last year, Clovis police officers issued 81 citations during the same period. The Fresno Bee