Executive Director Edwina Scott and President Chris Kramer of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, want to revise and bring the Hill’s last Community Wildfire Protection Plan up to date. However, the plethora of fires throughout the state has made it difficult to include the local fire agencies in this effort. Nevertheless, as fall and…

Concurrent with the first public meetings of the new County Service Area 36 Advisory Council, management of CSA 36 recreation also will shift beginning July 1, 2016. The Economic Development Agency will have overall responsibility for all matters within the CSA 36 purview. But current recreation managers, the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space…

At their June 20 meeting, Fern Valley Water directors unanimously declared a water shortage emergency. The board adopted Resolution 543, spelling out its process for declaring a water shortage, defining the four stages and implementing the stages. Fern Valley General Manager Steve Erler followed the resolution adoption with a declaration of Stage 1 Water Shortage…