FRONT ROYAL, Va. – Ryan Hidalgo of Murrieta has earned a place on the president’s list at Randolph-Macon Academy for the first quarter of the 2019-2020 school year. Hidalgo is a Falcon Scholar at the academy and the son of Becky and John Hidalgo of Murrieta. Only students who achieve a GPA of 4.0 or higher are named to...
HEMET – Tahquitz High School’s cheer team hosted its annual Cheer Showcase with a fun and caring, twist. This year, in addition to cheer teams performing a pep rally, halftime or competition routine, the student-athletes also created posters about the community service projects they performed throughout the year. This new addition was in support of the Riverside County Office...
Riverside County landed in the No. 1 spot among large counties throughout California for high school graduation rates this year, according to data released Thursday, Dec. 12.The California Department of Education’s “2019 California School Dashboard” showed that the county hit a milestone in the spring, with 90.1% of students countywide who began as freshmen in 2015 collecting their high...
Four Riverside County Sears stores will close, along with one Kmart location, as the company’s new owners continue efforts to streamline the struggling retail chain.Transformco, which purchased all assets of Sears Holdings Corp. in February, announced Thursday, Dec. 5, it will be shuttering 96 Sears and Kmart locations across the country. The closures will leave Transformco with 182 locations.“We...
TEMECULA – Twenty-two pounds of fun-size candy bars, lollipops, chocolates and other sweet Halloween treats will soon be sent to U.S. troops overseas and military veterans thanks to children in southern California.Each child who brought in a bucket, bag or pillowcase full of candy to Journey at Pechanga at Pechanga Resort Casino between Halloween and Nov. 17 received a free...
MENIFEE – For the second consecutive year, the city of Menifee has been named a Top Workplace for 2019 by the Inland News Group. In its sixth year, the annual Top Workplaces program invited hundreds of businesses and thousands of employees in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties to take the survey from which the results determine the...
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointed Kyla Brown as the new director for the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District. Brown has been the assistant director at the parks district for the past nine years, overseeing a workforce of more than 100 employees.“Beautiful parks and open spaces are characteristic of Riverside County,” Board Chairman Kevin Jeffries said....
With the recent heavy rains, our water supply may not be at the top of everyone’s worry list. Even so, last week the San Diego County Water Authority gave an update on the future of water in our region.The County Water Authority was created by the Legislature in 1944. Its 24 member agencies provide about 75% of our water...
Sustaining an injury or feeling the sudden onset of sickness can be an alarming experience. In many instances, people instinctively seek out the emergency room as a vital provider of immediate care. However, according to a study from Mercer Human Resources Consulting, 35% of emergency room users were unaware that they had alternatives for care. When experiencing a change...
A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s disease patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.If regulators agree, the drug could become the first treatment specifically for dementia-related psychosis and the first new medicine for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly two decades....