Idyllwild Water District plans a special board meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, to adopt the new personnel manual. At the 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16 board meeting, the board will hold a public hearing on whether to increase directors’ compensation. Both meetings are at the office’s meeting room.

The Idyllwild Historic Preservation District Review Board announced a community meeting to acquaint property owners, especially those within the district, with what has been called “the single most important economic incentive program in California for the restoration and preservation of qualified historic buildings by private property owners.” The Mills Act, enacted in California in 1972,…

The Fern Valley Water District board of directors selected a replacement at its regular November board of directors meeting for former Director James Rees, who resigned the same day the board interviewed the candidates to replace Trischa Clark, who resigned because she sold her house. Walter Bonneau Jr. was selected to replace Clark. It is…