LA MIRADA – Rebecca Branch of Murrieta has been named to the 2019 Biola University volleyball team. Branch, who will graduate this year with her nursing degree, will be a setter on the Eagles’ roster. Competition for Biola University is scheduled to begin Thursday, Sept. 5. The senior setter, who is a graduate of Chaparral High School, will join...
Three brush fires that erupted Thursday, Aug. 22, alongside state Route 371 on the south end of Aguanga blackened 34 acres and were 65% contained.The non-injury blazes were reported about 4 p.m. nearly 2 miles apart, on the south side of the highway, between Yucca Lane and Wilson Valley Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.Twenty-one engine crews...
Most people now understand that “red flag” laws violate the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and many Republicans, including the president, now seem willing to join Democrats, after the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Denton, Texas, by left-and right wing extremists, to put dents in the Second Amendment hoping these laws “might” somehow help. But...
A brush fire scorching nearly 80 acres near I-15 and Temescal Canyon Road in Lake Elsinore was quickly contained by firefighters Sunday, Aug. 25.The Ivy Fire was first reported just before 11 a.m. and brought on an aggressive response by firefighters, including both ground and air attacks in response to the blaze.According to Cal Fire, firefighters responded to the...
Despite Caltrans recent efforts to reduce fatal and serious traffic accidents on Gilman Springs Road between San Jacinto and Moreno Valley with reflective paddle boards, double-yellow lines, rumble strips and a streetlight, two more people died in a head-on collision Sunday, Aug. 18.This early morning accident occurred a half mile west of Highway 79 on Sanderson Avenue when a...
A Lake Elsinore resident appeared before the city council Aug. 13, proposing to build a 40,000-square-foot university, resort hotel, townhomes, luxury condominiums and commercial center on 42 acres of lakefront property she owns.The proposal by landowner and developer Wendy Du showed a rendering of what the development would look like on the property that was once the site of...
TEMECULA – Trevor Mack was awarded the Eagle Scout rank in Boy Scouts of America after completing his final board of review, July 18.Trevor Mack, son of Steve and Karen Mack of Temecula, is a member of Boy Scout Troop 301 where he served as patrol leader. For his Eagle Scout service project, he planned, organized and directed a...
Poor pitiful Planned Parenthood. A new rule on Title X funding, a program designed to provide health services to low-income people, went into effect Monday, courtesy of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court Appeals – the most liberal appeals court in the nation. Therefore, the nation’s behemoth abortion provider will fall on its sword – make that the scalpels and...
Months of meetings between the Menifee and Murrieta police chiefs resulted in a police dispatch agreement between the two cities police departments being approved by the Menifee City Council Wednesday, Aug. 21.Appearing before the council with the details of the agreement was Menifee’s new police Chief Pat Walsh, Murrieta police Chief Sean Hadden and members of the Murrieta Police...
Some people signed up to attend Murrieta Fire and Rescue’s seven-week Citizen’s Fire Academy out of curiosity. Others did it for experience and understanding.Still, others did it for the challenge.“I’m a bored housewife,” Stacey Kerr of Murrieta said, laughing. “No, I climb mountains. I go to the gym. I’m like ‘hey, this sounds like a challenge.’ It fascinates me,...