When you read this column, it will be less than one week until Election Day 2012. I don’t care for whom you vote, but I do care that you vote. It’s too late to register and too late to request a vote-by-mail ballot, but it’s not too late to go the polls. On the Hill,…
The only sustained effort to create a ski resort here in Strawberry Valley began immediately after World War II. In 1946, Jules Berkeley of Los Angeles acquired 37 acres high in Fern Valley below Tahquitz Peak, where he built Hidden Lodge. Taking advantage of a location handy to both the Devil’s Slide Trail and South…
Fern Valley Water District customers Suzanne and David Horowitz experienced extensive water loss from an undisclosed leak and petitioned the Fern Valley Water District for a catastrophic water loss adjustment. The Horowitz’s (who did not attend the meeting) asked in a letter that the $13,695.80 bill for the period of July 1 through Aug. 31…
Third Quarter monitoring of the underground storage tank at the Village Food and Fuel site (Shell Station) produced mixed results since the June sampling. Several hydrocarbon readings increased at Monitoring Well no. 1, while the overall trend continued to diminish, according to the engineer’s report from Robert Manning, project manager and senior geologist for the…
Highway 74 was designated a State Scenic Highway in 1971, Highway 243 in 1972 and both were subsequently designated a National Forest Scenic Byway in 1993 …
Friday (Oct. 26) night’s game was Senior’s Night at Hemet High School’s football game against Beaumont High School. Senior defensive back Alex Sanborn (26) on his way to Northwestern College in Minnesota was joined by brother Ben (left), father Bill and mother Andrea (right).
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, Oct. 19, golf tournament. The club held its regular monthly tournament at Oak Valley Golf Club in Beaumont. It was a perfect fall day and the course was in excellent shape. Regular 2012-13 Tournament Les Widerynski (course handicap 18) shot…
The 2012 race for the 36th Congressional District is only one week away, but the competition for campaign money and the public’s perception of the candidates— Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack and her Democratic challenger, Dr. Raul Ruiz — are already intense. The results of the fundraising from January through the middle of October were released…
Campaign contributions are involved in elections at every level of government, including local assembly districts and school board races. Assembly District 71 Brian Jones, the Republican candidate for the 71st State Assembly District, has raised nearly $225,000 for his campaign, of which $40,000 has arrived since Oct. 1. Jones is an incumbent running in an…
Proposition 30, the Schools and Public Safety Protection Act, proposes to raise personal income tax rates on individuals making more than $250,000 a year for the next seven years and to increase the state sales tax by a quarter of a cent for the next four years. According to the measure’s authors, the additional revenue…
