CLINTON, SC – Ava Smith of Temecula was named to the President's List at Presbyterian College after earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the Fall 2025 semester.
Inspired by the motto, "While We Live, We Serve," Presbyterian College celebrates an enduring culture of academic rigor, honor, and service worthy of being "America's Innovative Service College."
PC provides students of...
Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District is celebrating spring with two Easter-related activities.The 37th annual Bunny Hop Family Fun Run will be Saturday, March 14 and Easter egg hunts are scheduled for three Valley-Wide facilities on Saturday, April 4.The Fun Run will be at Diamond Valley Lake Community Park, 1806 Angler Ave. Hemet. It begins with the Tot Run, for...
Jenna Peters, who was raised in Lake Elsinore and played high school softball for Temescal Canyon High School, is now a senior at Western New Mexico University. She was selected as the Mustangs’ softball player of the week for February 9-15.
The Mustangs played two games that week, both as part of a February 15 doubleheader at home against the...
For the third consecutive year, Safewise has ranked Menifee as one of the Top 20 safest cities in California. The city improved its ranking this year to #17 based on the most recent FBI-reported violent and property crime data. The full report is available at www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-california.
“Maintaining a safe community is one of our top priorities,” said Acting Mayor Bob...
The Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District will be replacing the buoy-based water quality monitoring systems known as sondes, which monitor the water quality in Lake Elsinore.A 5-0 EVMWD board vote on February 12 approved a contract with YSI, Inc., to replace the two existing sondes. The $337,899.35 contract will also add two additional swap sondes.The existing sondes were installed...
The road to a CIF Southern Section championship is never paved with ease, and this past week proved no exception for local high school programs. From thrilling buzzer-beaters to tough defensive battles, teams across the valley left everything on the court and field. Here is a look at how our local squads fared in recent playoff action.The Rancho Christian...
Perris Auto Speedway opened its 2026 season February 14, and Hemet resident Austyn Jaramillo won the Factory Stocks main event.The main event win was the first in that division for Jaramillo, who has been racing at Perris Auto Speedway since 2020 and in the Factory Stocks class since 2022. “That was a little unexpected,” he said.“I wasn’t super confident...
The County of Riverside will be reviewing options for a new Code Enforcement office in the San Jacinto area.A 5-0 Riverside County Board of Supervisors vote February 10 authorized the Real Estate Division of the county's Facilities Management department to identify suitable space for lease in the Hemet, San Jacinto, and Murrieta areas and to negotiate and prepare necessary...
The Murrieta/Wildomar Chamber of Commerce Student of the Month program held its January recognition breakfast at the Murrieta Valley USD Early Learning Center on Jan. 15. Emcee Mary Walters welcomed everyone to the breakfast and explained that the long-standing program, founded by Sally Myers of BMW Management/Sizzler restaurants, celebrates and honors outstanding students who make significant differences in their...
I was so inspired listening to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who stood before global leaders in Munich last week. He declared that “de-industrialization was not inevitable” but “a conscious policy choice,” and voiced a grievance long felt across America’s factory towns and working communities. Plants did not simply vanish. Supply chains did not drift overseas by accident. As...