In a meeting with Town Crier staff at Hemet Station in Valle Vista, Lt. Dean Agnoletto and Sgt. Wallace Clear reviewed recent commercial burglaries in Idyllwild and Lake Hemet, station response, and limits placed on both investigation and response by reduced staffing. Agnoletto confirmed that there are, as yet, no suspect leads for the seven…

Periodically, the Town Crier has sought information from Hill propane suppliers regarding pricing and other matters. Some companies will talk to us, others won’t. Propane suppliers are private companies, not regulated by state public utility commissions in the way public utilities such as natural gas, electric and water are regulated. And because pricing is based…

As of Saturday evening, nearly four days after the voting booths have closed, about 373,000 ballots or two-thirds of the ballots cast in the 2018 election have been counted, according to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters Office. Another 227,000 mail-in and provisional ballots, are still being counted. Based on the number of registered voters,…