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Sixth grade students from Visalia, Dinuba and Earlimart spending the week at SCICON, Tulare County's outdoor school of science and conservation located on 1,100 acres above Springville, awoke to a pleasant surprise Wednesday morning - snow.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Calexico and Andrade ports of entry made four significant seizures over the weekend involving hard narcotics, firearms and ammunition.

The gray clouds Wednesday over his almond farm west of Tulare were a welcome sight to Anil Gupta.

Berryhill will be based out of the firm's Fresno and Clovis office locations. The firm has offices in Fresno, Clovis, Visalia, Bakersfield, Modesto and Los Banos.

Tulare County firefighters responded just after 7 p.m. to an orchard in the 10400 block of Avenue 56 in Earlimart.

On Friday, authorities say a woman interrupted a burglary in progress in the 900 block of First Street in Wasco.

Officials with the Tulare County Sheriff's Department are investigating a fire that occurred Monday morning in the small south county community of Earlimart.

On Tuesday, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors is expected to approving moving back the closure of the Earlimart and Kennedy Meadows Transfer Stations to July 31.

The tough water year Gamdur Gill was expecting is getting worse. Gill, who grows almonds and grapes on his farms south of Earlimart, heard the news last week that spring and summer water allotments for him and other farmers who get their water from the Friant-Kern Canal were being cut -- again.

A homicide suspect who was shot and killed by law enforcement in San Bernardino has been identified as a Central California resident.

CARJACKING SUSPECT ARRAIGNED The surviving suspect of a murder and attempted car jacking in Yucca Valley earlier this month, was arraigned in a San Bernardino court Monday.

Nelson Fernando Garcia-Soto, 39, was sentenced Friday to 148 months in prison for possession and intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.

The Bureau of Reclamation announced selected four groundwater banking projects that will receive an estimated $12.7 million in cost-share funding under Part III of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act, including $10 million in Fiscal Year 2013 awards.

Led by manufacturing jobs, the unemployment rate in the Tulare County was 12 percent in May 2013, down from a revised 13.6 percent in April 2013, and below the year-ago estimate of 14.8 percent.

Nine people were arrested at the Earlimart flea market for selling counterfeit music CDs and DVD movies, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

More than $150,000 in counterfeit music and movies were seized from a rural Tulare County flea market on Monday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office said.

The Real Estate Log is taking a trip down Highway 99 this week for a look at the residential and commercial market in the South Valley.

The collision happened shortly before 7 a.m. in the area of Avenue 24 and Highway 99, according to the Tulare County Fire Department.

In June, the city permitted 34 new homes, compared to 28 for June 2012. The increase puts the city on pace to do more than 320 new homes this year, the best year since 2010.

Sometime between Monday and Tuesday, subjects broke into a Richgrove storage facility and stole thousands of dollars worth of tools, copper wire and electrical equipment.

Winter wonderland school

CBP Officers at Imperial Valley Ports Seize Narcotics and Firearms over Weekend

Tulare County farmers, cities set to deal water shortages

Milestones

Mobile home destroyed by fire near Earlimart

Wasco Resident Nabs Two Suspected Burglars

Half-built home in Earlimart burns to the ground

Supervisors delay closure of transfer stations

Tulare County farmers' water cut even more

Man killed in San Bernardino CHP shootout identified

Yucca Valley Murder-Carjacking Suspect Arraigned

Mexican national sentenced to 12 years for meth distribution

Bureau of Reclamation selects recipients for groundwater banking funding

John Lindt: Tulare County unemployment rate drops to 12 percent

9 arrested in Earlimart for selling counterfeit CD's, DVD's

Music, Movie Pirating: Tulare County Cracks Down

Real estate log: Earlimart to get first large retail project

Bicyclist injured in collision south of Earlimart

John Lindt: Housing recovery continues in Visalia

Deputies searching for Richgrove copper wire thieves