🍃Good morning! It’s Friday, June 14.
Weekend temperatures should be (relatively) cooler following several days of three-digit heat, according to the National Weather Service. Highs Saturday and Sunday are expected to reach 92 and 90, respectively. Temperatures heading into the work week are expected to be in the high 80s and low 90s through Tuesday. Cooler weather aside, high winds could kick up a lot of dust in the coming days, with gusts of 20 to 25 mph over the weekend and into next week.
🔍 In celebration of Juneteenth next week, the Fresno Historical Society invites the public to listen to personal oral histories from some of Fresno’s “earliest African American community leaders.” The event runs from 4 to 7 p.m. tonight (Friday, June 14) at Fresno City College’s west campus, 600 E. Church Ave. Visit the Fresno Historical Society for more information.
🪧“The renaming of a large south Fresno traffic corridor officially began on Wednesday as – one by one – signs for a stretch of California and Ventura avenues and Kings Canyon Road are being swapped out for the new “Cesar Chavez Boulevard,” KVPR reported.
Steeper penalties for ‘backyard’ dog breeders likely coming to Fresno – potentially $1,000 per dog
The Fresno City Council delayed a vote Thursday to give city staff more time to come up with harsher penalties for illegal dog breeders — with proposals for $1,000 fines and potential criminal charges on the table. Council President Annalisa Perea and Councilmember Garry Bredefeld co-sponsored Thursday’s resolution to put […]
South Fresno residents fought for a community benefit fund. Now most can’t access it.
Three years ago, the residents of a small neighborhood just outside Fresno extracted a rare concession from the developers behind a proposed Amazon warehouse: $300,000 to help them cope with the anticipated surge in air pollution from a million diesel trucks passing through each year. For Daleville residents like Bernardo […]
