Bill Donahue and the Sage Town Hall Association have been working to get Sage declared as a census designated place to differentiate it from Hemet. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo
The Sage Town Hall Association board announced Friday, Aug. 7, that Sage has been declared an official census designated place by the U.S. Census Bureau.According to the STHA Facebook page, “We just received notification that, as of this morning, after years of hard work and the help of our supervisor’s office and Riverside County mapping, we are officially a census designated place.”A census designated place is a concentration of population defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. The boundaries of a census designated place have no legal status and may not always correspond with the local understanding of the area or community with the same name.Anza, Aguanga, Mountain Center, Idyllwild and Lake Riverside Estates are census designated places; howe
