Tag: Local
Menifee resident announces election run for District 2 Council seat
Menifee resident Ricky Estrada in an email recently announced his intention to run in the next election for the District 2 City Council seat...
Louis Wolf’s Daybook from the Warner Store in 1867
Rebecca Marshall FarnbachSpecial to Valley NewsHistorians can learn a lot from reviewing the records kept at a nearby general store 155 years ago. In...
EMWD approves new director division boundaries
Every years the Eastern Municipal Water District adjusts the boundaries of its director divisions to account for population changes recorded in the decennial census....
Colorful parrots fly free in the San Jacinto Valley
Saying SoCal Parrot Free Flight is for the birds is an unfair statement. It is just as much for the people who enjoy helping...
Photographer shares his talent to benefit others
Photographer Don Starkey likes to capture his surroundings in photographs and finds his favorite images to be landscapes.“A landscape can repeatedly take us to...
Hemet and San Jacinto motorists seeing short closure of Commonwealth Avenue for water pipeline...
Hemet and San Jacinto residents normally driving on Commonwealth Avenue are warned that Eastern Municipal Water District project to install a 60-inch diameter pipeline...
The legacy of Mahlon Vail
Rebecca Marshall FarnbachSpecial to Valley NewsMahlon Vail’s story starts with his father’s success story and how it set the scene for Mahlon’s life and...
Noli Indian School 4-H Club program welcomes donation
Soboba Band of Luiseño IndiansSpecial to Valley NewsThe now-defunct Soboba Livestock Association found a way to continue its original mission of education by donating...
California remains in drought despite winter storms
The state of California remains in a drought despite December’s winter storms which dumped more than 130 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevadas,...
Rain brings relief from drought
Despite the threat of La Niña, which usually results in a drier-than-average winter for those in the southwest, lasting into February, an abundance of winter...