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The Hemet Unified School District governing board will consider new bargaining agreements with the Hemet Teachers Association and the California School Employees’ Association at its Feb. 23 meeting. Both agreements include a retroactive pay raise from July 1, 2015, and then another increase through June 30, 2018. Beginning July 1, 2018, the 1-percent salary increase…
By Colleen Tressler Consumer Education Specialist, FTC If someone you don’t know sends you a check and asks for money back, that’s a scam. Fake checks (https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-spot-avoid-and-report-fake-check-scams) drive many types of scams — like those involving phony job and income opportunities, online classified ad sales and others. In a fake check scam, a person you…
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is alerting drivers about a new law requiring them to give bicyclists, traveling in the same direction, 3 feet of clearance when passing. The Three Feet for Safety Act takes effect Sept. 16 According to the new law (AB1371), which Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed a year ago…
The Hemet Unified School District budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which ends June 30, continues to be in a safe and sound condition, the financial staff reported to the Board of Trustees in March. The current projection is that expenses ($294.1 million) for the year will exceed revenue ($291.8 million) by about $2.3 million. HUSD…
The prospective arraignment of Robert Pape, 25, for the 2006 triple homicide in Pinyon Pines was deferred a month until May 16. This is the third postponement of Pape’s arraignment since his arrest in March. On March 26, Riverside County Judge James Hawkins ordered Smith to stand trial for the murders. However, his lawyers are…
Registration and turnout (As of Saturday evening) 943,402 registered voters Votes Percent Precincts reporting turnout 244,809 25.95 Vote by mail reporting turnout 352,247 37.34 Total 597,056 63.29 President and Vice President Riverside County Statewide Votes Percent Percent Dem – Barack Obama 287,754 48.80 59.2 Rep – Mitt Romney 290,227 49.21 38.4 Grn – Jill Stein…