Assemblyman Brian Nestande is holding a town hall meeting to discuss current legislation and issues of concern to local communites. The meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the San Jacinto Community Center, 625 South Pico Ave., San Jacinto. For more information, call Nestande’s office at 951-925-8306 or email sarah.dukett@asm.ca.gov.

Members of the Community Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee met last week to review the status of several projects previously approved. This would form the basis of the CSA 38 budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which begins July 1. Through the first 11 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18), revenues from property…

The County Service Area 38 Advisory Committee will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the Pine Cove Water District’s board room. The committee will review the second-quarter revenue and expense report and the 2018-19 budget. Old business on the agenda includes the deck cost breakdown for the Pine Cove Fire Station, the status…

Southern California Edison shut down power to nearly 12,000 customers from Hemet to Banning, including all of Idyllwild and Pine Cove, today around 4:30 p.m. Louis Davis, SCE representative, told the Town Crier that the outage was in response to the discovery this afternoon of a major copper wire theft. Davis said the outage is…