Nancy Price

3 weeks ago | gvwire.com | Nancy Price

Barring any last-minute about-faces by Clovis Unified officials, eight high school seniors won’t be joining their classmates at their graduation ceremonies, and their families are now “resigned” to that outcome, Fresno attorney Steven Smith said Tuesday afternoon. One of the students who was not punished is on the Clovis North softball team and has continued to play since the incident.

4 weeks ago | gvwire.com | Nancy Price

Sarvadnya Kadam, a 14-year-old Visalia eighth grader, came only a few letters short of claiming the championship in the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals on Thursday night. Sarvadnya was knocked out in the 20th round of the competition when he misspelled Uaupes, a river in the Colombia-Brazil region. The winner, Faizon Zaki of Allen, Texas, then successfully spelled two more words, with little to no hesitation, to claim the top prize.

1 month ago | gvwire.com | Nancy Price

Two Valley eighth graders were hanging tough in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., but only one made it through 10 rounds and into Thursday’s finals. Sarvadyna Kadam, a 14-year-old Tulare resident who attends Oak Grove Elementary, is one of only nine students heading to the finals. Unfortunately, his Valley counterpart, Lawrence Ye, 13, who attends Herbert Hoover Middle School in Merced, won’t be on stage with him on Thursday.

1 month ago | gvwire.com | Nancy Price

If you bet that Fresno would escape the month of May without seeing triple-digit temperatures, get ready to pay up. After a couple days of 90-degree heat this week in Fresno, Friday’s high is forecast to soar to 102 degrees, and Saturday could see a scorching 105 degrees, National Weather Service meteorologist Carlos Molina said Wednesday. That’s shy of the all-time highs set in 1910 of 109 degrees for May 30 and 110 degrees for May 31.

1 month ago | gvwire.com | Nancy Price

Marv Allen, known for his deep baritone and wry sense of humor as an on-air host at KVPR, died Thursday, May 22, due to complications from bone cancer. He died eight days before his 81st birthday. Marvin Allen Moore, whose radio moniker was Marv Allen, hosted several shows on the Valley’s public radio station for 19 years and was still doing broadcasts as the host of NPR’s afternoon “All Things Considered” until he formally retired four days before his death.