Editor’s note: An interview with Dr. Raul Ruiz’s opponent, Kimberlin Brown Pelzer, appeared in the Oct. 11 issue of the Town Crier. Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz is seeking his fourth term representing California’s 36th House District. He was first elected in 2012, when he upset incumbent Mary Bono Mack and was reelected in 2014 and…

Tim Lange, elected to the Pine Cove Water District board in August, submitted his resignation at the March 9 meeting. “It is given with mixed feelings,” he said. He and his wife will be moving to Willamette Valley in Oregon, where he resided for about eight years in the 1970s. Lange was consistently upbeat and…

Lead in water and in old water pipes has been in the headlines of national media for several weeks, ever since the announcement of its presence in and damage to the Flint, Michigan, water system. While the three local water districts have and still use pipelines many decades old, all three general managers have confirmed…

By Intuit, IncContributed Intuit, Inc (Nasdaq: INTU) announced July 6 that Samantha Hallburn [of Idyllwild] has been named to the company’s U.S. Accountant Council advisory board. Intuit’s mission is to power prosperity around the world, and it accomplishes this through its innovative ecosystem of financial management solutions that serve more than 100 million accounting professionals,…

‘Fire in Paradise’ film showing March 5 With the upcoming fire season approaching, the thought of a wildfire on the mountain is looming.   Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Bischof, of Menifee, grew up in Mountain Center. He started his career in the fire service at the age of 18 working for the U.S. Forest…