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Listen to the story here. Along Fern Avenue in the Tower District, businesses are boarded up, some lined with graffiti. There’s trash piled in the doorways. But on this sunny Saturday afternoon, volunteers move brooms along the sidewalk and sweep the debris into boxes. There’s an upbeat feeling about their work.      Tyler Mackey, executive director of the Tower District Marketing Committee sweeps a sidewalk on Fern Avenue on a volunteer clean up day. One of the cleaning crew is Kacey Auston. She grew up in the Tower and is now leasing the former Bank of America building on this stree...

On this week's Valley Edition: How the business community in Fresno’s Tower District has adjusted to the pandemic, and the incoming tenants that could

Locals Protest Rush Limbaugh Tribute on Historic Gay-Friendly Theater February 19 2021 2:59 PM EST A historically queer-friendly Fresno theater and the conservative church trying to buy it are under fire after a tribute to recently dead hatemonger Rush Limbaugh was posted on the marquee this week. “Thank you Rush for teaching us,” the marquee on the theater read, “You will be missed very much. But never forgotten. R.I.P.” This message drew ire from locals who remember Limbaugh mainly as a hateful man who mocked gay and trans people and celebrated the deaths of those who died from AID...

Sequoia Brewing Company to take legal action in Tower Theatre dispute The owners of the local brewery and restaurant filed a lawsuit, saying their lease agreement with the theater's owners gives them the right to buy their property. KFSN Share: Share: FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Sequoia Brewing Company is joining the legal fight to keep the Fresno's iconic Tower Theatre from being sold to the Adventure Church. The owners of the local brewery and restaurant filed a lawsuit, saying their lease agreement with the theater's owners gives them the right to buy their property if it's up for sale.

A group of protesters gathered across the the street from the Tower Theatre, demonstrating against the ongoing sale to Adventure Church.