Fern Valley Water District General Manager Steve Erler said the mid-January cold snap caused average district water demand to triple from 80 gallons per minute to a peak of 256 gpm. At the Friday, Feb. 15, district board meeting, Erler said staff conducted a system survey and found that numerous customers had failed to properly…

Daylight Saving Time ended Sunday and also marked the 26th anniversary of the Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery® Program, sponsored by Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs. The Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery program reminds people to change and test the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Non-working…

Affordable health care is available for uninsured Californians in 2017. The deadline for Covered California’s open enrollment ends on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Those who enroll by Sunday, Jan. 15, will have their coverage begin on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Those signing up between Monday, Jan. 16, and Jan. 31, will have coverage starting March 1.  …

At the recent County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee meeting, pickleball courts were discussed and provisionally approved, pending a final “go” authorization from the Riverside County Park District Advisory Commission. That authorization was given at a Thursday, Nov. 3, meeting of the commission, according to Kyla Brown, Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District…

A Joshua Tree man was sentenced to two years in prison for a fatality that occurred in 2021 on Highway 243. On Jan. 31, Nathan Daniel McConnell, 40, pleaded guilty to gross vehicle manslaughter and reckless driving causing serious injury on May 9, 2021. McConnell was driving northbound on Highway 243, north of Miller Ranch…