The Hemet Unified School District board unanimously approved an agreement with the Hemet Teachers Association for fiscal year 2012-2013. No proposed teacher or staff reductions were part of the agreement or the district’s tentative budget for the next fiscal year. The agreement continues the 178-day school year, a six-day reduction from the normal 184 days….
Larry Kawano will unlock and update popular myths and misconceptions about the universe, or to be more specific, our universe as presenter for the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s very popular Idyllwild Speakers Series. Many know Larry, or more properly, Dr. Kawano — doctorate in cosmology from the University of Chicago, bachelor of science in physics…
Quinn Cummings, author of “Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from my Awkward and Lovely Life” (Harper Collins Hyperion Books, 2009), leads off the second Idyllwild Authors Series. Once again, presenter Eduardo Sanitago has booked 10 A-list Los Angeles authors for his weekly series that begins with Cummings at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20 at the…
Brendan Steele made a second consecutive cut last week posting a two-under-par 71-72-71-72 — 286 that tied for 48th in the Wells Fargo Championship at Charlotte, N.C. In the process he added more than $16,000 to his official winnings and moved up slightly on the FedEx Points list. The Idyllwild native’s stats suggest that he…
Design guidelines for the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District are available online at www.rivcoparks.org/2012/05/01/idyllwild-historic-preservation-district-design-guidelines-drafts. This is the final draft of design guidelines that will govern maintenance, additions and remodels of historic district structures within the Idyllwild North Circle business core that forms the major part of the district. A meeting to present those guidelines and explain…
The Hemet High School boys volleyball team is in the California Interscholastic Federation — Southern Section tournament. Hemet faced Saddleback High School (13-16) and number three from the Orange Coast League, Tuesday, May 8. The winner will face the Division 2 number one seed, Oak Park High School (26-6). Hemet finished the year with a…
The weather is cooperating. No late spring snows are in the forecast …
The Californa Trucking Association donated $1,000 to Idyllwild School’s sports program last week. Here (from left) Principal Matt Kraemer, Volleyball captain Ben Cruz and softball captain Lizzie Anderson accept the check from Mark Studevan and Devon Ades, of the CTA, who sponsored a motorcycle ride through the San Jacinto Mountains and Idyllwild School was one of the stops.
Hemet Unified School District is registering students for transitional kindergarten and kindergarten now at the Centralized Registration Office. The state’s Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 changed the age of admission for kindergarten and first grade and established a transitional kindergarten program beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Transitional kindergarten is the first year of a…
Editor’s note: Mr. Rahman wrote a letter pubished in the May 3 Town Crier issue regarding the ICRC’s policies. Acting ICRC Chair Dawn Sonnier responded online and in this letter. Since [Mr. Rahman thinks] that our board’s decision to create a policy to ask for “suggested donations” for the use of the ICC property is…
