No challenge to re-election of Clark and Schnetzer At a special meeting Monday morning, June 3, the Fern Valley Water District Board of Directors selected James Gates as the fifth director. The other applicant was Fred Hamblin. Gates will fill the vacancy created when George Rowell resigned in April. Gates’s appointment is until December, the…

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel Plott, 45, of Idyllwild, for assault with a deadly weapon, and the district attorney filed a felony hit-and-run charge in Superior Court on July 27, to which Plott has pleaded not guilty. A felony settlement conference is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 14. He currently is still in custody. On…

 Annexation of properties into sewer system deferred General Manager Jack Hoagland told the Idyllwild Water District board that he has ordered equipment to eliminate the organic matter apparently in the district’s Foster Lake water. Once installed, this should result in reducing the disinfection by-products, which are produced from the chlorine’s interaction with the organic matter. “It…