Business
Valley business briefs: Visalia books Bradshaw, Kawasaki
Broadcaster and Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw, author Guy Kawasaki and communication expert Amanda Gore will be the featured speakers for a national leadership simulcast that will be televised in Visalia. The 2013 Refresh Leadership Simulcast will be from 8 a.m. to noon April 17 at the Holiday Inn, 9000 W. Airport Drive. [...]
Word on the Street: Oakhurst museum pays homage to teddy bears
A trio of teddy-bear aficionados in Oakhurst are combining their formidable collections to create a new Teddy Bear Museum of the Sierra in their hometown. The museum, which shares space with the King Vintage Museum on Highway 41, opened Friday with more than 250 antique teddy bears on display from museum co-creators Toni Lagunoff, Carol [...]
Clovis gun range get more time to address noise complaints
Clovis City Council agreed Monday to give the owner of an indoor gun range more time to address noise complaints from unhappy neighbors. At a short public hearing, the council voted unanimously to give Jacob Belemjian, the owner of the Firing Line, 180 days to reduce gunfire noise. The 5-0 vote came after the Clovis [...]
Rare Fresno high-speed rail board meeting packs conference room
The California High-Speed Rail Authority holds most of its board meetings in Sacramento. But a special teleconference meeting Monday offered Fresno-area residents a chance to attend without making the three-hour haul up Highway 99. About two dozen people — including members of Kings County’s grassroots opposition group Citizens for California High-Speed Rail Accountability — crammed [...]
Valley sales tax revenues reach for record highs after slump
Sales tax revenues are climbing out of a multi-year slump and are forecast this year to hit record highs in some Valley cities. Officials say they expect the upward trend to continue but aren’t celebrating yet. “It’s certainly optimistic, and it’s nice to see it go back up, but you have to be careful,” said [...]
Word on the Street: Trucks get new, secure place to park in Fresno
A Fresno trucking company has built a secured off-street parking facility for truckers who are barred by ordinance from parking their big rigs overnight on Fresno’s streets. DTL Transport, which was started 20 years ago by businessman Teja Singh Dosanjh, will open its new DTL Parking center on April 1. The 7-acre truck parking lot [...]
