Editor: Let’s recognize at the onset that the sun establishes and controls our climate/variability. Other factors, such as major volcanic eruptions, have minor temporary influence. Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide (CO²), have no scientifically demonstrated significant effect. Further, no relationship between CO² increase and temperature increase (=variable) can be…
By Jack Clark Co-publisher and General Counsel Fourteen weeks until the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Town Crier’s Membership model. You TC readers could not be more clear. You want to keep a community watchdog, warning of danger, advising of opportunity, challenging authority, praising accomplishment, investigating irregularity, marveling at art, exposing abuse, celebrating…
Deputy association financing Bianco campaign The race for the next sheriff of Riverside County is becoming very expensive. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been spent and the total will go into the millions if none of the candidates garners more than 50 percent of the vote on June 5. Incumbent Sheriff Stan Sniff…
Dave Brown, former chief of police for the city of Hemet, is one of three challengers to the re-election of Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff. “I’m the only outside candidate,” he said. “And I have actual experience leading a law-enforcement agency.” Brown knows the Hill. He grew up in Hemet, attended Little Lake Elementary School,…
Editor’s note: This week, Riverside County sheriff candidates Chad Bianco and Dave Brown are interviewed. In two weeks, Sheriff Stan Sniff’s interview will appear. Miguel Garcia, the fourth candidate, has not responded to the Town Crier. Background Lt. Chad Bianco has been with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for 24 years. He began in corrections…
At 12:24 p.m. Sunday, May 6, a rear-end collision took place on Highway 74, one-tenth of a mile east of the intersection of Highway 371. Karin Vega, 22 of Mountain Center, while riding west on a green 2013 Kawasaki Ninja traveling 40 miles per hour, struck the rear of a Four Winds trailer attached to…
Stephen Patrick Medlock, 52, a transient, charged with arson for igniting the 2013 Silver Fire, had his May 2 felony settlement conference moved to June 6. Since his March 21 preliminary hearing, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has amended the original formal complaint that was for two felony charges, one for arson of an…
Winter returned last week, not just a brief Mother’s Day snow, but several days of near-freezing temperatures, which resulted in fireplace smoke in the sky and thermostats in overtime. Spring temperatures were driven into hiding Monday through Wednesday, as the 30s and 40s were the daytime highs. Some precipitation accompanied the winter climate, but the…
About 4:50 a.m. Tuesday, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake occurred about 9 miles north of Cabazon. The earth trembled as far south as San Diego and west to Santa Clarita. Four other temblors followed this quake. Their magnitudes ranged from 2.2 to 3.2. The last one recorded was about 5:40 a.m. No major damage has been reported….
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, April 29 to May 5. Idyllwild • April 30 — Barking dog, 10:00 a.m., Oakwood St. Handled by deputy. • May 1 — Hazard, 2:09 p.m., 25000 block of Fern Valley Rd. Handled by deputy. • May 2…
