Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 30. This is Rob.
Soak up the sun: More sunny, clear skies today with highs in the 80s. Rainclouds could sneak into Fresno over the weekend. They’re sneaky that way. NOAA
Go Big! Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live is coming to the Fresno Fairgrounds for the first time ever with an outdoor show. More information here
Shredder: The City of Fresno will host a paper-shredding event for residential solid waste customers at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 2 at the Public Utilities Operations & Maintenance Building, 1665 G St.
1. Lunch for $10?
Affordable meals almost feel like a dying breed in 2026, an endangered or at least vulnerable species, disappearing from the landscape as $20 ‘value meals’ crop up.
But brutal food prices and inflation haven’t ruined everything — yet.
Fresnoland staffers have put together a list of some of our favorite $10 lunches in Fresno. From breakfast burritos and carryout sushi to shawarma and hot dogs loaded like nachos, here are just a few of our go-to spots on those days when our bag lunches remain lonely and forgotten in our refrigerators.
Let us know if you try something new that you like and let us know if you have any favorite cheap lunch spots that we need to know about, too!
2. ‘Absolutely about our district’
Fresno’s Central Unified school board voted unanimously this week to oppose a contentious mega-development miles from its district boundaries, GV Wire reports.
“SEDA isn’t in our district, but this vote is absolutely about our district,” said Trustee Harman Singh. “This isn’t to say we shouldn’t expand elsewhere, but this is saying where we are first, we should have completed neighborhoods.”
In the wake of political pressure from Mayor Jerry Dyer earlier this year, trustees for Fresno Unified — the area’s largest and most-impacted district — refused to take a stand on the development, despite internal analysis suggesting the 9,000-acre new-town-sprawl development would likely exacerbate the struggling district’s already-bleak enrollment outlook.
Fresno Unified trustees have been sharply divided over whether to take a stand on SEDA, with most elected trustees refusing to answer questions about their non-positions on an issue fundamental to the district’s future.
3. After more than two decades, East Orosi celebrates
Residents of the tiny Tulare County town of East Orosi recently celebrated an event many thought might never happen – the official kickoff of construction on a new $13.5 million drinking-water system, SJVWater reports.
“It’s been a long time coming, right?” said East Orosi resident Carlos Sanchez. “Years of fighting for water. A simple thing.
Groundwater in the community of about 400 is tainted with nitrate, which can be lethal to newborns and long-term exposure has been linked to some types of cancer.
Controversy over the community’s water system has been a decades-long fight.
Today’s newsletter was edited by Fresnoland’s Omar S. Rashad.
