The Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) would like to remind everyone in the mountain communities that its monthly pantry box distribution for food insecure community members and seniors is this coming Tuesday, Sept. 1. Although this is ICC’s regular “first Tuesday of the month” distribution day, it is unusual for the distribution date to fall on…

Assemblyman Brian Nestande is holding a town hall meeting to discuss current legislation and issues of concern to local communites. The meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the San Jacinto Community Center, 625 South Pico Ave., San Jacinto. For more information, call Nestande’s office at 951-925-8306 or email sarah.dukett@asm.ca.gov.

Riverside County’s property assessments continue to recover from the last recession. For fiscal 2017-18, the assessment roll exceeds its previous record achieved in 2008. Current total county property assessment is $269.1 billion, which is 5.5 percent more than last year’s total of $255.1 billion. This is the fifth-consecutive year of growth after Riverside County suffered…

In an informal meeting, two members of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s Finance Committee discussed with staff the status of the current-year budget and progress on preparation of the fiscal 2017-18 budget last week. After three-quarters of this fiscal year is competed, expenditures have exceeded revenue by only $4,300. IFPD has received 60 percent of…

A fatal motorcycle accident occurred Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 on State Route 243. About 12:40 p.m., Thai Yang, a 40-year-old male from Banning, was riding a 2009 Yamaha motorcycle southbound on SR-243. He was about 1 mile north Mountain Center, where 243 intersects Highway 74. Vincent Brooks, a 26 year old man from Mountain Center,…