Joe Cortez

4 days ago | turlockjournal.com | Joe Cortez

Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding to know Turlock’s plan regarding homelessness — specifically, how it plans to fund the We Care homeless shelter — and implored the city council to do a better job in addressing the needs of the unhoused. In a letter dated May 9 and addressed to Mayor Amy Bublak and members of the city council, the governor took issue with the body’s April 8 decision against making a nominal $1 contribution that would have  secured $267,100 in state grant funds for the shelter.

4 days ago | turlockjournal.com | Joe Cortez |Kristina Hacker

BY JOE CORTEZ AND KRISTINA HACKER Turlock Journal The Turlock Journal recently sat down with Rep. Tom McClintock (R-El Dorado Hills) at his Modesto office to talk about the Republican-controlled Congress’ sweeping changes to the political and regulatory landscape. Below is Part 2 of that interview (Part 1 was published in the May 30 edition). TJ: Tell us about the Fix our Forests Act, and your Proven Forest Management Act that's included in it, and why it's important.

4 days ago | turlockjournal.com | Joe Cortez

The Turlock Certified Farmers Market awarded $1,500 in scholarship money last month to high school seniors. Turlock High’s Arianna Mendoza and Seth Salabor, and Pitman’s Elijah Rhoads, each received a $500 scholarship to continue their education next fall. Mendoza is planning on attending Stanislaus State, where she wants to major in kinesiology and hopes to one day become a physical therapist.

4 days ago | turlockjournal.com | Joe Cortez

Despite the fact that the 1973 classic “American Graffiti” — written and directed by Modesto native George Lucas — is more than 50 years old, and the era it portrayed is more than 60 years in the rearview mirror, Brent Burnside believes the annual American Graffiti Parade & Festival is as relevant as ever.

1 week ago | turlockjournal.com | Joe Cortez

The sun hung low in the sky Thursday evening as four generations of Turlock High graduates gathered to take photos in front of the Turlock Unified School District administrative office. Eighty years ago in 1945, when Marjorie Smith graduated from THS (she was Marjorie Schendel then), the administrative office was Turlock High School.