Joe Aklufi, who was arrested May 17, along with six other former Beaumont city officials and was the former legal counsel for Idyllwild Water District, has had his arraignment moved to Aug. 19. He is being tried for six felony counts of embezzlement. At a preliminary hearing Thursday, May 26, Judge Becky Dugan set a…

Members of the Community Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee met last week to review the status of several projects previously approved. This would form the basis of the CSA 38 budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which begins July 1. Through the first 11 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18), revenues from property…

First Town Hall recreation kids’ soccer game and, according to a Facebook post by Dawn Sonnier, there were “no uniforms, no refs, no goals and no [county] representation.” Sonnier posted this information on Monday, Sept. 30. Her post elicited a firestorm of negative comments from upset parents and others who wondered why they were paying…