In April, the Riverside County Grand Jury delivered a report critical of the county’s Registrar of Voters Office’s preparation and conduct of the November 2015 election. The grand jury visited seven different polling places in the county. In its response, which the Board of Supervisors approved in late July, the registrar agreed to change some…

Martin Baxter, Riverside County medical volunteer coordinator, discussed the county’s medical volunteer program at the monthly meeting of the Mountain Emergency Services Committee. The Nov. 8 meeting at the Idyllwild Fire station was well attended and included professional responders and representatives from disaster volunteer groups from Idyllwild and Anza. MEMSCOMM is the mountaintop’s coordinating committee…

The American Legion Post 800 in Idyllwild got started in the 1940s. Back then, its building on Marian View Drive was a Kiwanis Club — you can still see the “Circle and K” symbol on the west face of the building. The Legion bought it from Kiwanis in early 1971. Tom Pierce, an Army veteran…