Lewis Griswold



Longtime Allensworth cemetery ownership mystery solved, sort of The cemetery south of Colonel Allensworth State Park is the final resting place of several people who lived and worked at Allensworth when it existed as a self-sufficient black community in the early part of the last century.

But it has been a long-standing mystery who actually owned the Allensworth cemetery. The state park doesn't claim it, the farmers who have plowed near it don't claim it, and there's no cemetery district.

By Lewis Griswold / The Fresno Bee
10:39:24 PM Saturday, Aug 23, 2008

Visalia doc visits Africa a 2nd timeDr. David Borge just returned from Madagascar, where he spent a good part of his youth as the son of a Lutheran missionary doctor.
By Lewis Griswold / The Fresno Bee
10:35:40 PM Thursday, Aug 21, 2008

Old Tulare school bell to ring one more timeTulareans are rightly proud of their old school bell made in 1884. It's still being pulled out for ceremonial occasions, such as opening day last week of the new Mission Oak High School.
10:32:47 PM Saturday, Aug 16, 2008

Neighbors fight large grocery store plansA Fresno developer hoping to build a 71,000-square-foot grocery store at the northwest corner of Walnut Avenue and Lovers Lane in Visalia is being opposed by the neighbors.
11:05:32 PM Saturday, Aug 9, 2008

Grower aids arrest of theft suspectsDon Petersen owns Petersen Nut Dryers south of Visalia, still out in the country but getting closer to town. He and wife Peg live on the property surrounded by their walnut orchard. They're letting a young farmer, David Cordill, do the actual farming this year.
11:13:29 PM Thursday, Jul 17, 2008

Visalia's oldest coffee club sips its lastWhen national TV reporters need to interview the heartland, they go to Iowa or Missouri and stop in at a small-town coffee shop and interview the guys meeting for coffee. And it's usually guys.
By Lewis Griswold / The Fresno Bee
12:40:27 AM Sunday, Jul 13, 2008

S. Valley power line foes picking up steamThe ad hoc group opposed to Southern California Edison's proposed high-voltage transmission lines from Lemon Cove to Visalia now has 500 members, said George McEwen, who helped start Protect Agriculture, Communities and the Environment.
By Lewis Griswold/The Fresno Bee
11:24:09 PM Thursday, Jul 10, 2008

Call reveals political realities in TulareOn the night of the June 3 primary, 34th Assembly District candidate Connie Conway of Tulare got a phone call from Assembly Speaker Karen Bass.
10:45:38 PM Saturday, Jul 5, 2008

Tulare Co. loses bid to buy stretch of railroadTulare County supervisors got word this week that the county lost out to a competitor in its bid to buy 30 miles of railroad from Strathmore to Ducor.
11:05:38 PM Thursday, Jul 3, 2008

Visalia's new sports park is hot propertyThe opening next month of the Visalia Riverway Sports Park is creating a land rush for playing fields.
By Lewis Griswold / The Fresno Bee
05:05:02 AM Friday, Jul 20, 2007



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