Tree falls in Royal Pines Estates
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Stacie Kelly, emergency services coordinator with the Riverside County Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, spoke to attendees at the Aug. 14 Mountain Emergency Service Committee meeting about what her department offers the community. Her agency partners with the county’s Office of Emergency Services whenever a county emergency is declared. “We focus on the…
Dan Fedrick picks up a Newton’s cradle from the counter at Remember When Toys and gives a quick lesson on the three principles that guide it: inertia, equal and opposite reaction, and conservation of momentum. It’s the kind of object that feels perfectly at home in a store like this — simple, tactile, a little…...
New Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz attended the Fern Valley Water District board meeting to build communication. “I want to make sure we have a great working relationship,” said Reitz, “and to build communication. I’m planning on staying around for quite a while.” The board said they appreciated Reitz’s gesture. Reitz elaborated that he would…
Here are the local election results as of Monday evening. The Riverside County Registrar of Voters has about 215,000 vote-by-mail and 25,000 provisional ballots left to process. The next update is scheduled after the newspaper goes to press. Idyllwild Fire Protection District Board Christina Reitz: 544 votes Dennis Fogle (appointed incumbent): 399 votes Dan Messina…
More rain during the middle of the week and at the end was joined by the largest snowfall since the first week of the year. Pine Cove received another 3 inches of rain. The 3.3 inches last week brought the total rain since July 1, to 13.5 inches. This is nearly 50 percent greater than…
California Highway Patrol and Riverside County Fire Department/Cal Fire have responded to two traffic collisions Wednesday morning on Highway 74 below Mountain Center at mile post marker 56 near the Vista Point. At about 7:50 a.m., a pickup truck towing a trailer slid off the roadway with the trailer causing a road hazard. A gray…