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Pine Cove Water District residents will have a choice of three candidates for the two director seats up for election in the August mail-in ballot election. Diana Eskew, a board member, who is in her first election, and two challengers — Sharon Kaffen and Timothy Lange — are the candidates. Voted ballots must be received…
The U.S. Forest Service is temporarily closing all California national forests due to the ongoing wildfire crisis. To view the exceptions to this order, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD949139.
The next general manager of the Fern Valley Water District will be Victor Jimenez, who currently works for the City of El Monte. He was the unanimous choice of the board and will begin in early April. FVWD received 15 applications for the position, and the General Manager Selection Committee, composed of directors Trischa Clark…
The Pine Cove Water District board last week unanimously approved several resolutions and actions dealing with financial matters. Approved were the traditional $30 stand-by fee, the 2015-16 budget, a rebate program and authority to lease space at PCWD’s Rocky Point communications facility to American Medical Response. Each of these was approved unanimously. During the public…
In May of 2013, when Becky and I bought the Town Crier, our single goal was to keep it serving our community. At that time, there were nine local public agencies serving our Hill, and no media monitored and reported on them except the Town Crier. We felt our Hill community very much needed a…
The 2nd-annual Lemon Lily Festival (LLF) drew a larger audience and organizers learned some lessons they will use to improve the festival for next year. Key organizer Doug Yagaloff reported that based on site surveys, shuttle transport and merchant queries, he believes the festival drew about 5,000 attendees, most of whom were from out of…