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A woman from the Coachella Valley has tested posted for the Zika virus and health officials say the woman contracted the illness during her travels. The woman is the second travel-associated confirmed Zika case in Riverside County, according to Riverside University Health System-Public Health. The first case involved a 50-year-old man, who had recently traveled…
This weekend the Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department presents playwright J.B. Priestley’s “Time and the Conways.”
Recently, the county announced that transitional kindergarten through sixth grade can resume in-person instruction with approved COVID-19 prevention plans because the county has less than 25 cases per 100,000 residents.The Hemet Unified School District Board voted on the “approval of the instructional model and timeline to return to hybrid in-person instruction” at its Tuesday night…
The Fern Valley Water District Board of Directors approved General Manager Victor Jimenez’s recommendation to lower its Water Shortage Emergency Stage from 2 to 1 last Friday. Jimenez made the recommendation after Gov. Jerry Brown rescinded the state’s emergency drought status two weeks ago.
The Idyllwild Downtown Historic District now has a local review board. At its Tuesday, Jan. 29, meeting, the county Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Nancy Borchers and Barbara Jones of Pine Cove, Ron Kammeyer of Fern Valley and Warren Monroe and Christina Stewart of Idyllwild. Borchers and Kammeyer will serve one-year terms and…
Deputy Mike Vasquez, public information officer Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed on Aug. 24 that the body found by a hiker on Sunday, Aug. 21 is that of Josephene Youssef, 71, of Pinyon. Youssef had been missing since June 7 when she went for a walk from her family’s home in the 70-300 block of…