Jack Clark Co-publisher We received an email from a Member in Costa Mesa who wished to cancel his TC Membership because of a front-page piece in last week’s paper. The Member wrote it was “a vaccine hit piece” that he believed was intended to discourage our readers from being vaccinated by referencing out-of-context statements from…

Walter Bonneau official resigned from the Fern Valley Water District Board of Directors after escrow closed on his house about June 8. Bonneau and his wife Lynne are moving permanently to Arizona. Richard Schnetzer resigned earlier this year after selling his house, and is moving with his wife Pat closer to family up north. The…

The effects of the 2013 Mountain Fire continue to threaten the local biosystem even though the flames were extinguished long ago. Last month, Debra Nelson, U.S. Forest Service botanist on the San Jacinto Ranger District, led an expedition into Garner Valley’s Johnson Meadow to help protect native plants from the encroachment and invasion of the…