On Monday, a state appellate court affirmed a lower-court ruling regarding how water rates must be determined. The decision said, “The trial court did not err in ruling that Proposition 218 requires public water agencies to calculate the actual costs of providing water at various levels of usage.” The 4th District Court of Appeal did…
“If [the Goldspotted oak borer problem] doesn’t get taken care of, it will devastate the oaks on the Hill,” said Chris Kramer, president of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, as he opened the community meeting Saturday at the Nature Center. The MCFSC invited experts from the University of California, Riverside, Cal Fire and the…
Hip hop icon Flavor Flav will be hosting a free fan meet-and-greet and announcing the grand prize winner of a 2015 Maserati Ghibli at Soboba Casino from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 26. Club Soboba cardholders will have an opportunity to meet Flavor Flav. Group passes will be issued starting at 4 p.m. for…
“For me, all design is emotional,” said landscape designer Mark Taylor. “I have to be patient and allow the design to generate. By listening and being slow, the land speaks to me.” Taylor forges landscapes, working with both the massive and the delicate — the boulders and the trickling water, steel girders and wooden decks….
A head-on collision at about 6:50 p.m. Saturday, April 18, resulted in a fatality that closed Highway 74 in both directions near Bull Canyon Road (40 feet west of mile marker 73.75) to just above Palm Desert. The closure lasted until 11:01 p.m. according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. Teresa Gonzalez,…
Obituary Hannelore Magdalena Evans 1940-2015 Hannelore Magdalena Evans (Laura, as she was known to friends) passed away peacefully at age 74 at her San Diego home Monday, April 13, 2015, surrounded by her family after battling cancer. Born July 14, 1940, in Regensburg, Germany, she moved to La Jolla in 1966. Laura is survived by…
Idyllwild Water District remains in Stage 2 water emergency, General Manager Tom Lynch told the directors during the April 15 meeting. But IWD is hovering very close to its trigger points for moving to Stage 3 status. While the groundwater level of the downtown wells is at the criterion of 20-foot depth, the depth of…
The scent of lilacs is heavy in town this week. The Garden Club will host a Lilac Tea at Alpenglow Gardens in Fern Valley on May 2 and 3 as well as an educational talk at the library and Lilac-inspired art show at the Caine Learning Center.
On Saturday, the State Water Resources Control Board released proposed regulations for implementing Gov. Jerry Brown’s 25-percent conservation standard mandated by his April 7 Executive Order. Urban water districts will be required to reduce current consumption by between 8 to 36 percent compared to 2013 per-capita usage. Smaller water suppliers (serving fewer than 3,000 connections),…
Fern Valley Water District is now in the most extreme water shortage emergency — Stage 3. Implementation rules will be disseminated over the next few weeks. The district has been in a Stage 1 condition since June 2014. The principal reason for moving quickly to a Stage 3 and skipping Stage 2 was Gov. Jerry…
