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  • Past Tense: Sept. 6, 2012
    Past Tense

    Past Tense: Sept. 6, 2012

    By September 7, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    55 years ago – 1957 Pine Dell Estates was a new development in town, just below the village on National Forest Highway [aka Highway 243].   50 years ago – 1962 It had been 75 days since the last measurable moisture. High temperature for the week was a sizzling 96 degrees. • • • With…

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  • Creature Corner: Sept. 6, 2012
    Creature Corner

    Creature Corner: Sept. 6, 2012

    By September 7, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    They went from being lost and abandoned dogs to loved dogs. Paws up to our Chip, the teacup Chihuahua, one of the smallest from the Anza Rescue in April, and to Elsie, the deerhead Chihuahua whose owners simply walked away. Chip and Elsie walked proudly out the ARF door sporting new harnesses, their very own…

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  • Regional News

    New deputies in the pipeline

    By September 7, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Twenty-five new police officers completed a rigorous training program at the Ben Clark Training Center and graduated from the Riverside Sheriff’s Department Basic Peace Officer Training Academy. Only one, Cory Zimmerman, will join the Sheriff’s Department and could be part of a new wave of deputies that will increase staffing at Hemet Station. Other graduates…

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  • Idyllwild News

    Idyllwild fire department approves budget

    By September 7, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Without debate, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission unanimously adopted its 2012-13 budget. The commission had reviewed and discussed the current budget in June when it preliminarily approved it during its first August meeting. The total budget equals about $1,663,700 and balances revenue and expenditures. The largest revenue increase, about $45,000, is from the new…

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Opinion: A new library isn’t open yet

    By September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

    Hey, folks, lighten up! As I walk from our post office to Fairway Foods and other Strawberry Creek Shopping Plaza businesses, I often — make that usually — hear derogatory comments about the new library building. The color, the doors, the parking, the cost of construction — everybody seems to have an opinion, and I…

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  • Fire and Forest

    Fire & Forest: Planning for future wildfires …

    ByMichael Esnard September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Our local fire season thus far has not been remarkable, but it has been for others. We did get smoke from the Sage fires recently, but we were never seriously threatened. Other communities in the West have not been so fortunate. The Rocky Mountain states had very large and destructive fires in June, and the…

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  • Pine Cove Neighborhood Watch group forms
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    Pine Cove Neighborhood Watch group forms

    By September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

    Another Neighborhood Watch group formed. This one is in Pine Cove and members Jeremy Potter and Becky Smith admire the new signs they’ve installed.

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  • Idyllwild News

    DA disappointed with Hillman sentence

    By September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

    Deputy District Attorney Timothy Cross was not pleased with Christopher V. Hillman’s sentence for attempting to influence the jury during the Raymond Oyler arson murder trial in 2009. On Friday, Aug. 24, Judge Larrie Brainard sentenced Hillman to 36 months of formal probation. “I’m really disappointed,” Cross said. “The jurors were just doing their duty…

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  • Obituary: Robert John Muir
    Obituaries

    Obituary: Robert John Muir

    By September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Robert John Muir, a resident of Pine Cove, Calif., for 56 years died Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, after a long bout with dementia. He was 84 years old.   Bob was born in Denison, Iowa, on Aug. 23, 1928, to Elizabeth and Andrew Muir. When Bob was 8 years old the family moved from Iowa…

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  • Obituary: Shirley Mae Petkin
    Obituaries

    Obituary: Shirley Mae Petkin

    By September 6, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Shirley Mae Petkin of Rancho Mirage, Calif., died on Aug. 11, 2012, in Rancho Mirage from complications of Parkinson’s disease. She was born to Bert and Agnes Jacobson on May 30, 1928, in Chicago, Ill. She was 84 years old.   Shirley Mae, as she liked to be called, grew up in Chicago, where she…

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