Editor’s note: Riverside County’s Planning Department has proposed major changes to Ordinance 927, “Regulating Short Term Rentals” (STRs). The draft is available for public comment. The March 10 edition of the Town Crier describes the significant differences between the current ordinance and the revised draft. The March 17 issue has a story discussing the draft…

While monitoring of all well sites drilled to observe migrating hydrocarbon from the old leak of underground gasoline storage at Village Food and Fuel (the Shell station) continues, Riverside County Department of Environmental Health has reduced the effort and begun work to restore the site. Last month, RM Environmental Inc., the contractor, removed the soil…

Sometime between 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, and Monday morning, a thief or thieves broke into mail boxes in the Idyllwild Post office. “Both mail and parcels were stolen and there were multiple victims,” said Sergeant Sgt. Ken Reichle of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station. If anyone has any leads on the investigation, they…