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☀️ Good morning! It’s Wednesday, July 23. This is Rob, wishing you a happy National Gorgeous Grandma Day to those who celebrate!
More mild-for-Fresno summer weather again today with highs in the upper 80s throughout the week.
🛣️In local news today, the messy saga of the countywide Measure C steering committee took another turn late Tuesday when the panel reinstated Fresno rep Brooke Ashjian less than a week after dismissing him for what the panel chair said were misleading media statements and personal attacks against other panel members. The panel chair tells Fresnoland that she was not pressured to reinstate Ashjian and only agreed to the move after Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer reportedly told her that Ashjian would follow the panel’s decorum rules. Check out the full story below from Fresnoland’s Pablo Orihuela, including what’s next the committee trying to save the region’s key transportation tax.
A Fresno judge this week halted plans to relocate a Costco Wholesale store from West Shaw Avenue to West Herndon, saying the City of Fresno failed to follow state climate change rules. Check out the full story below from Fresnoland’s Gregory Weaver.
🔬A former Madera charter school exec has been indicted by the California Justice Department which says Nicolas Retana embezzled from a charter school, securing jobs and perks for family members. In a news release this week the DOJ also said Retana “also had a personal relationship with a self-proclaimed sex worker turned relationship coach whom he paid $12,000 using school funds.” The Fresno Bee
🦏The Fresno Chaffee Zoo says both the Stingray Bay and the African Adventure savannas will be closed during the month of August, and the giraffe feeding station. KSEE
A Lemoore veteran recently won two gold medals for power lifting at the 2025 National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Minnesota. KMPH
🎥Cen Cal Cinema invites the public to the final showing of its inaugural season with a special showing of the 1980s classic film “Jaws,” complete with some kiddie pools available to reserve so attendees can have a more immersive, aquatic screening! The event is free to the public and begins at 8 p.m. Friday, July 26 at the Calwa Recreation and Park District. Cen Cal Cinema
Ousted Fresno member reinstated to Measure C panel after messy controversy
The countywide transportation board reinstated one of the City of Fresno’s three representatives to its sales tax advisory board following pressure from city leaders. Brooke Ashjian was reinstated to the Measure C steering committee on Tuesday according to Fresno Council of Governments Chair Alma Beltran. Beltran disagreed with questions that […]
Fresno Costco relocation blocked by court over flawed environmental review
A Fresno judge blocked the city’s plan to relocate Costco from Shaw Avenue to Herndon Avenue last Thursday, ruling that the Dyer administration must comply with state climate change regulations before the project can proceed. The proposed new Costco, planned as one of the largest in the country, represented a […]
Meet the Fresno folk singer who outsmarted one of California’s worst megafires
A folk singer from the hills above Fresno has an answer to a set of questions shaking California to its core. Standing on a ridgeline that was Ground Zero for one of the most intense wildfires in American history, Jemmy Bluestein, standing all of 5 ‘8, 160 pounds, didn’t flinch. […]
