According to CHP Officer Matt Napier, at approximately 2:45 a.m. on March 22, Elena Galo Santillan, 51 of Calexico, was driving a black 2009 Chevrolet Malibu westbound on Highway 74 near Devils Ladder Road when she fell asleep at the wheel. Her vehicle drifted to the right through the intersection and collided with an electrical…

Riverside County Fire/Cal Fire is reporting that an active fire on Camp Pendleton, the Tomahawk Fire may cause residents in the southwest portion of the county to experience drift smoke. Earlier, it reported that the county had no active fires at this time. However, at about 5 p.m. Friday, May 16, firefighters responded to a…

All chairpersons are in place and the plans for the Saturday, Nov. 24, Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony are preceding smoothly, according to Phyllis Mueller, CEO of her own worldwide marketing company, and new Tree Lighting chair. “The event is now 100 percent coordinated with a person over every area and nothing is behind schedule,” Mueller…

Two residential burglaries, one on River Drive (June 6) and one on Double View Drive (June 14), continue the spate of criminal activity that has increased over the last year. And on Thursday, June 14, vandals cut the lock on Town Hall’s outside storage shed and ransacked the supplies kept inside. Nothing was stolen. Disorder…