A four-man Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit (RMRU) team headed by locals Lee Arnson and Chad Marler fought their way down steep terrain and rugged brush to rescue a first-time deer hunter who had become stranded in the Rouse Ridge area near Anza on Saturday, Oct. 1. “We got the call out around 9 p.m.,” said…

Although all Hill water districts have been plagued by leaks from this year’s unseasonably cold winter, Pine Cove suffered the fewest water losses of the three. General Manager Jerry Holldber credited district customers’ cold weather preparations. In the first two months of 2013, PCWD water production was up 17 percent, Fern Valley had a 24-percent…

No weather forecaster predicted an El Niño or even a rainy winter, yet so far, the 2016-17 season has been surprisingly, and gratifyingly, wet. For the second-consecutive holiday weekend, rain and snow fell on the Hill. While the amounts were not as massive as the Christmas weekend, New Year’s weekend supplied more than an inch…