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☀️ Good morning! Today is Tuesday, July 8. Danielle, here. Did you miss us? We’ve been quiet over here — both Rob and I were taken out with some sort of bug. Instead of watching Love Island USA like the rest of the world to get through it, I got to watch my kids be bored for the past few days.
Cleaner air on the 4th? As much as my kids love fireworks, I dread the noise and coughing and smoke inherent in the day of glorified pyromania. Fresnoland’s Gregory Weaver reviewed the data over the weekend, and found that air pollution on the evening of the fourth was lower than we’ve seen for awhile. Fresnoland
💃🏽 Fresno’s first ever Latine film festival: The valley has no shortage of solid filmmakers — and this Saturday, you can catch many in action at the city’s first Latine Film Festival at the Tower Theater. Ticket sales proceeds will go to CHIRLA, a nonprofit that provides immigration legal services. For more details and to buy tickets, visit fresnotowertheater.com.
Another grocery store moves north: Ah, a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Fresno. This time it’s Grocery Outlet, who shuttered their Blackstone and Ashlan Avenue location last month and has plans to open in a former Rite Aid at Willow and Nees Avenue in northeast Fresno, with a grand opening planned for next week. Fresno Business Journal
Fresno air pollution on July 4th cleanest in three years – but Bakersfield still tops valley for worst air
Fresno celebrated its cleanest Fourth of July in years, with pollution dropping to just levels barely above EPA standards. The drop – at 36 micrograms per cubic meter – marks a dramatic three-year decline from 163 micrograms in 2023 and 60 micrograms in 2024. Bakersfield maintained its unwelcome title as […]
Schiff calls for farmworker protections, denounces plainclothes immigration arrests in Fresno County visit
U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff denounced several of the Trump administration’s recent immigration enforcement tactics in the Central Valley and across California — including chasing a farmworker through the fields and making arrests in plainclothes. “We need to make sure that we acknowledge who’s putting food on our table, and how hard […]
