All five directors were present at the May Fern Valley Water District (FVWD) meeting to discuss the FY 2021/22 draft budget, water conservation and the upcoming district elections.The district made its second payment to El-Co Contractors, Inc. for $136,301.25 for the emergency pipeline replacement project. The asphalt work still needs to be completed. General Manager…

Early Thursday morning, a swarm of earthquakes occurred near Aguanga and again Friday morning. On each day, the series of quakes began after 3 a.m. On Thursday, the greatest-magnitude quakes were 2.9 and 3.0. The Friday quakes were similar, the largest magnitude was 3.1 and a 2.7 quake occurred later. All were concentrated in the…

After a year in which two natural disasters — fire and floods — have threatened the hill and disrupted living patterns, the Fourth of July and the evening of July 5 raised concerns of a third disaster, earthquakes. While Idyllwild only experienced the tremors from two distance quakes to the north, Ridgecrest — near the…

At the Aug. 29 board of supervisors meeting, the future regulation of the legal cannabis commerce within Riverside County was begun. However, as Supervisor Kevin Jeffries (1st District) emphasized, the future legalization of cannabis marketing will be totally dependent upon the approval of a tax measure on the November 2018 ballot. The board, in a…