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13Events this week
1Free things to do
84New spots
107New stories

● Checked Sunday, September 13, before the 6 AM send.

This week in Porterville

Four picks from this week's calendar. See all 13 events, day by day →

Living Well with Diabetes Support Group

Monday 5:30pm · Visalia Senior Center

Coffee with the CEO

Wednesday 9am · Stafford's Chocolates

Open Studio Time

Wednesday 12pm · Arts Visalia Visual Art Center

Jaded

Thursday 8pm · Tulare County Fair

New in Porterville

Places that opened, reopened, or earned a mention this month — the ones we'd go back to.

paul morgan

Beauty

Great hair day insurance: From precision haircuts and keratin smoothing to extensions, upstyling, and natural-looking color with highlights or balayage, Paul Morgan makes good hair feel easy.

paulmorganhair.com ↗

Porterville Quesabirrias

Restaurants

For your birria fix: When the craving hits for cheesy, dunkable goodness, Porterville Quesabirrias comes through with crispy quesabirria tacos, birria ramen, and even birria pizza, plus hefty burritos and aguas frescas.

order.online ↗

Porterville’s best businesses

Every spot worth knowing, in one place.

The restaurants, shops, and services the newsletter recommends, all in one place — every listing checked, and paid pins marked every time.

Browse Porterville’s best →

Most read in Porterville

The five stories Porterville readers clicked most this month, from the daily editions.

  1. Downtown Visalia Farmers Market Closing After Organizer Says Losses Exceeded $100K

    The Downtown Visalia Certified Farmers Market is closing after years of operation due to financial losses and ongoing disputes over its operations.

    Full story at gvwire.com ↗

  2. Wisk Breaks Ground On Vertiport At Hollister Municipal Airport In California

    Wisk Aero has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art vertiport at Hollister Municipal Airport in California.

    Full story at aero-news.net ↗

  3. Plane carrying Bay Area doctors crashes near Central California airport

    A small Cessna 560XL aircraft carrying four Bay Area doctors from the Bay Area to Central California to perform a surgery ran off the runway in Porterville, California, causing it to crash in a field.

    Full story at sfchronicle.com ↗

  4. Swatting incidents put Visalia police, residents in danger

    Swatting, or the "dangerous criminal act" of sending law enforcement officers to an unsuspecting person's home under false pretenses, puts innocent residents and officers in danger and diverts emergency resources away from those who may need help.

    Full story at yahoo.com ↗

  5. Bakersfield man with grand theft warrant arrested in Delano Target thefts

    Anthony Martinez, a 37-year-old Bakersfield man with a warrant for grand theft, has been arrested for allegedly stealing about $200 in Target merchandise in Delano, California.

    Full story at bakersfieldnow.com ↗

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