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The restoration of the Hill’s mountain yellow-legged frog population is continuing although no new releases of eggs are planned for 2012, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine. “It looks like our captive breeding program this year did not produce as many new frogs as…
Beginning Tuesday, May 7, Highway 74 will be open from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. for traffic between Mountain Center and Hemet, according to Caltrans Public Information Officer Terri Kasinga Monday afternoon. A pilot car escort will still be leading the traffic. This is one more hour than originally provided in April when the highway…
Back in 1994, Richard Alvarado started his career in the emergency medical field, a profession he hadn’t planned to pursue. “I didn’t want to be a paramedic at first. My goal was to become a firefighter, but I had to become an EMT first before I could become a firefighter. I saw the skills of…
Gender-based violence is the concern of a new group on the Hill and the subject of a public event Tuesday, Dec. 1. Callie Wight, a member of the group, says its formation was not a reaction to incidents on the Hill and stressed that children who live here from high school to later, spend considerable…
Five weeks ago, the Lake Hemet bald eagles gave birth to two eaglets, a male and a female, which weigh about five pounds now …
At 10:20 a.m. Friday, Dec. 2, Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies from the Hemet Station were dispatched to the 565700 block of E. Highway 74 reference a baby not breathing, according to Sgt. Wendy Brito-Gonzalez. She said “paramedics performed life-saving measures on scene but they were unsuccessful and the baby was pronounced deceased. There were no…