- Tangerine growers tell beekeepers to buzz off
Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in California's tangerine groves? That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers who prize orange blossom honey and ...
- Tango Means Cash for Valley Growers
Valley citrus growers have been quick to take to the "Tango." Not the dance, but a new seedless mandarin variety that provides one solution to a heated debate.
- Lemon addendum
We're still a little fixated on Meyer lemons and the luscious lemon flavor that is a welcome antidote to the rich holiday foods of December.
- Mandarins: A fantastic winter treat
Editor's note: Today's story on what's in season is part of a monthly series on local produce from information provided by the Visalia Certified Farmers Market.
- Sweet Basil and the Bee: Winter's golden globes a " It's Meyer lemon season at the market
It's Meyer lemon season at the market and another reason to be jubilant about living in California.
- Community Calendar: Duarte and Monrovia
Duarte has launched a weekly farmer's market on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market is located in a portion of a shopping center parking lot at the northeast corner of Huntington Drive and Buena Vista ...
- Regulators adopt new credit card rules
Federal regulators on Thursday adopted sweeping new rules for the credit card industry that will shield consumers from increases in interest rates on existing account balances, among other changes.
- Eat Your Almonds
EAT YOUR ALMONDS.... A new blog called On the Public Record is written by a "low level civil servant who reads a lot of government reports." My kind of blogger! Today, LLCS brings to our attention the ...
- Teens visit homeless for holidays
Citrus College student Erin Edwards, left, gives clothes and toiletries to Los Angeles' Skidrow resident Fannie Mayfield.
- Valley Farmers Prepare For Second Night Of Freezing Temperatures
Citrus growers across the Valley are scrambling to keep their crops warm with the expected freezing temperatures predicted for the night.
- Calif. citrus farmers brace for more cold weather
Citrus growers are scrambling to keep their groves warm to protect fragile trees from more unseasonably cold weather.
- San Joaquin Valley farmers face costly freeze
A freeze watch is on through Thursday in southern San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's $1.3 billion citrus industry, spurring growers to tune up some 12,000 wind machines and prepare for at least one ...
- Victorian home in Riverside shows its true colors
And to think that they saw it on Mulberry Street. Wilma and Tony Burton bought a derelict, ramshackle Victorian-era home at 3209 Mulberry and Second Street in Riverside.
- Dinuba-area packinghouse shutting down
After a lifetime in the tree-fruit business, Steve George isn't sure what he will do next summer when the family-run packinghouse no longer operates.
- Citrus names football coach
Ron Ponciano, Citrus College defensive coordinator the past few seasons, is the school's new football coach.
- COD graduations: There are other options
The front-page story on Dec. 4 reports that some COD students will have to delay their graduations because the winter intercession has been cancelled due to the state budget crisis.
- La Quinta gardener makes lemonade out of unusual crop of massive lemons
The fruit hanging from George Atzopoulos' backyard tree look more like basketballs than lemons.
- Mental health forum teaches residents about opportunity
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has one of its final community forums from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in an effort to raise awareness on mental health prevention and the Mental Health ...
- Community forum on mental health to be held at Citrus College
There will be a community forum on mental health in the San Gabriel Valley from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Citrus College.
