Vic Scavarda next Idyllwild representative on Hemet Unified School District Board
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Scavarda and three other candidates met with the HUSD Board, Tuesday afternoon, June 4. After an hour of answering questions, mostly about their qualifications and what skills and talents they would bring to the board, Director Lisa DeForest nominated Scavarda for the approaching vacancy, Director Jim Smith seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous 6-0.
Sanborn had excused himself from the decision.
In August 2017, the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, which provides water to much of Garner Valley, proposed to raise its water rates in Garner Valley. Those customers objected. The board held a special meeting at the Garner Valley Common and decided to table the rate increase until its staff could review the issue further….
Zach Behrens is the new public information officer for the San Bernardino National Forest, replacing John Miller who retired at the end of July. Behrens left the National Park Service’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to join the U.S. Forest Service. He also previously served as the acting public information officer at Sequoia and…
California’s drought conditions show no sign of abating. The water year that ended Sept. 30 was the second driest on record. All of California’s 58 counties are under a drought emergency proclamation. January, February and March 2022 were the driest on record dating back over 100 years. Just 6 inches of precipitation were recorded in…
The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the Nature Center is a working meeting of professional responders and is not open to the general public except by specific invitation, according to Kevin Turner, GSOB coordinator at UCR and CAL FIRE Forest Battalion Chief Gregg Bratcher. They have requested the…
Chief Hewitt was born and raised in Southern California. Within two weeks of his graduation from Duarte High School in Los Angeles County, near the San Gabriel Mountains, Hewitt was on the Oak Grove Hot Shots team. That was the first step in his career goal of becoming a firefighter. From the age of 5 or 6, Hewitt knew that is what he wanted to become.
As summer ends, with a peak in COVID-19 cases this year, and as coolerweather approaches when people begin to congregate inside, the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services announced that the opportunityto order free COVID-19 tests through the U.S. Postal Service will returnat the end of September. Currently, this source of ordering is closed. U.S….
