Caltrans is alerting the public that the National Weather Service is predicting rain and snow in Southern California this weekend. Snow elevations will possibly drop to the 4,000-foot level, which will affect all mountain regions in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Road conditions will be icy in areas affected by snow. Caltrans maintenance crews are…
A 3.2 magnitude earthquake occurred Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. The tremor was centered 18 miles south/southeast of Valle Vista, and 5 or 6 miles northeast of the intersection of highways 79 and 371, east of Temecula. About an hour earlier, a 2.2 magnitude tremor occurred about 2 miles further southeast. Thursday morning, another 2.2 tremor…
One crash and a suspected driving under the influence arrest occurred over the last week on Hill holiday roads. At 6:50 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, Joel Villanueva, 21, of Palm Springs, was driving a gray 2001 Ford Windstar westbound on Highway 74 near mile marker 84.75 when he made an unsafe turning movement causing his…
During 2018, the state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed 1,016 new laws. While some were effective immediately, some will not go into effect until 2020 or 2021. Most were effective Jan. 1, 2019. Below is a sampling of some of the more important or more interesting laws the state Legislature and governor felt…
Once again the holiday weather was a good reflection of the season — winter. By the time 2019 arrived, rain and snow had fallen over the Hill. However, the interesting result was that the more southern locales were wetter than the northern ones. More than half an inch of rain was reported at Thomas Mountain…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” Bernard was disappointed with Santa’s performance. Tex: Hello! Anyone here? Mr. Gray: I am, but Bernard and New Sadie are not. They found their forever families! Tex: Wow! So Santa did grant their wishes. Mr. Gray: Maybe Santa is just a bit behind, and we will find…
As a preadolescent, Michigan native David Haddad experienced what he calls an epistemological crisis. To define this for our readers, epistemology broadly means the nature and extent of human knowledge — how it is we either know or do not know something. For young Haddad, what it meant specifically was angst, discomfort and a feeling…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney on Friday, Dec. 21 at the Hemet Golf Club. Competition was keen and one shot separated the winner, Norm Kyriss (course handicap 8) from the next four golfers. Kyriss shot a net 68, but four others…
70 years ago – 1949 The Women’s Association of the Idyllwild Community Church was considering setting up a “bank” of food and clothing for needy families on the Hill. 65 years ago – 1954 Snow finally arrived — 9 to 11 inches of it. It was welcome, for Idyllwild had been through a very dry…
Cranston Fire Wednesday, July 25, the third of four consecutive days of heat warnings, started with blue skies, hardly any clouds, but hot. No one but one man, an arsonist, had any idea how hot that day and days that followed would get. The Cranston Fire began that morning. At 11:45 a.m., 911 (emergency dispatch)…
