At its Tuesday, July 12 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Commission reviewed its end-of-year financial condition and discussed the recent Grand Jury report on the agency. Although the district’s expenses exceeded its income by $235,000, several unique one-time circumstances explain a significant portion of the deficit, said Commissioner Ben Killingsworth. He first defended…

Following the conclusion of the public hearing on the rate increases, the Pine Cove Water District board reviewed the April financial statements and heard General Manager Jerry Holldber’s report on the district’s operations. Water production was 2.7-million gallons, 8 percent or 236,000 gallons less than the April 2017 production. For the first four months of…

Caltrans began work on a $7.3-million project to install a horizontal drainage system and repair current drainage systems on Highway 74 near Hemet Monday. The work is from .7 miles east of Blackburn Road to just east of Doe Canyon Road. The contractor, Dreambuilder Construction Corp. of Yorba Linda, placed signage alerting motorists of the…

Editor’s note: This is the last of a two-part annual series that began last week. Chuck Washington appointed supervisor By JP Crumrine News Editor The Hill received a new supervisor this year. Chuck Washington, former Temecula city councilman and mayor pro-tem, now represents Riverside County’s 3rd District. On March 4, 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed…

A trial readiness conference has been set for Robert Pape, 28, and Cristin Conrad Smith, 28, two men charged with a 2006 triple homicide in Pinyon. In late October, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz ruled there was sufficient evidence to try Pape and his co-defendant Smith. The trial readiness conference is scheduled for…