Editor’s note: Debra Varnado had an experience causing her to question emergency healthcare on the Hill. She plans to follow up on this issue with your help. Here is her story. Last Friday night just before bedtime, I stubbed the middle toe on my right foot, leaving it unhinged at an odd angle as if poking…
Editor’s note: The meeting in Mountain Center regarding ambulance response time was Monday evening, June 25. Below is brief report on the results. The July 5 edition of the Town Crier will include a fuller story of the discussion and issues. Martha Pearson organized a meeting to discuss ambulance response time in the Mountain Center…
Members of the Community Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee met last week to review the status of several projects previously approved. This would form the basis of the CSA 38 budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which begins July 1. Through the first 11 months of the current fiscal year (2017-18), revenues from property…
At 4:20 a.m. Monday, June 18, a black 2016 Dodge Dart driven by Erick Sosie, 20, of Arizona, traveling west on Highway 74 a mile east of Scenic Drive, unsafely turned his car toward the shoulder, which caused his car to collide with the mountain side, and the vehicle overturned, according to the California Highway…
July 17 date for bond measure decision On June 19, the Hemet Unified School District Board of Trustees adopted the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19, and the Local Control and Accountability Plan. Both were presented to the board at the June 5 public hearings. “Both the budget and the LCAP plan were passed without…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, June 17 to 23. Idyllwild • June 17 — 911 call from business, 9:02 a.m., Maranatha Dr. Handled by deputy. • June 17 — Follow-up, 10:11 a.m., address withheld. Handled by deputy. • June 17 — Check the…
Dozens of law enforcement officers respond to scene in Pine Cove Mark DeAntonio, 52, of Pine Cove, was arrested Monday morning after law enforcement descended on Pine Cove in a helicopter and vehicles, warning residents to stay inside their homes. Multiple charges included discharging a fire arm in a negligent manner and possession of a…
The proposed increase in the trash-service fees paid to Riverside County were approved at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting June 19. This is only for residential service. The current annual fee of $116.88 would be increased $19.80 annually through July 1, 2021, with a fifth increase of $19.92 on July 1, 2022. The most-recent increase…
Room full of opposition to increase The directors of the Idyllwild Water District eventually agreed to raise the water and sewer rates for their customers. The public-comment period, which opponents to the rate increases dominated, the public hearing on the proposed increases, and the agenda items to vote on each increase consumed nearly two-and-a-half hours…
Vincent Daniel Gillman, 51, of Pine Cove was arraigned in Riverside County Superior Court on Wednesday, June 19, charged by the District Attorney with one count of violating Penal Code section 487, subdivision (a), grand theft of more than $950. Represented at the arraignment by a deputy public defender, Gillman originally entered a plea of…
