Back in the mid-1990s, Huell Howser made his way into the San Jacinto wilderness to explore the wonders that many didn’t know existed. The American television personality who hosted “California’s Gold,” a human interest show produced by KCET in Los Angeles for California PBS stations, adventured through the Sunshine State to shed light on the…

Hemet Unified School District offices and school sites will be closed during the week of Thanksgiving from Monday, Nov. 24 to Friday, Nov. 28. In December, HUSD offices will be closed from Monday, Dec. 22 to Friday, Jan. 2, 2015.

At the Nov. 24 meeting of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, the board agreed to appoint District 5 Supervisor Marion Ashley to provide oversight for District 3 until Gov. Jerry Brown appoints a replacement for Supervisor Jeff Stone. In the Nov. 4 General Election, Stone was elected to represent the new state Senate District…

nificant events other than the usual weekly meetings, book clubs and spiritual events followed by Labor Day weekend barbecues, music and art shows. But before the three-day weekend was completely over, at 3:37 p.m. Monday, Labor Day, a wildfire was reported in Valle Vista, an unincorporated area outside of Hemet just below the mountains on…