Roughly 500 city and business leaders, as well as community stakeholders, attended the 2019 Southwest Regional Economic Forecast Thursday, Aug. 15, at South Coast Winery Resort and Spa to listen to economic reports and projections of southwest Riverside County from expert speakers.The event was fueled by a partnership between the host, Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce, and University of...
It isn’t the first time Chief David Lantzer has run a fire department – it’s not even the second. When he took over for Murrieta Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Ferguson late last month, it marked his third stint as a chief.Lantzer came to Murrieta Fire and Rescue four years ago, leaving a fire chief post with the city...
A workshop on the feasibility of the city to build a skateboard park and seek funding for the project was unanimously approved by the Hemet City Council Tuesday, Aug. 13.The workshop brought a large contingent of skateboarders, skateboard park supporters and others to the council chambers, each vying for an opportunity to speak in favor of the action.The council...
Villa Chardonnay, an accredited animal shelter, with its 216 horses, donkeys and mules along with dozens more cats, dogs and other animals, living out their last days on the 31-acre gated ranch property in Hemet, may soon lose their last home thanks to one suspected investor thief.Where these unwary old, lame, blind, crippled and unwanted animals will go by...
The ties between Independent Fundamental Baptist and Faith Baptist Church
Two arrests for crimes spanning more than 30 years by youth pastors at Faith Baptist Church in Wildomar has people asking questions about the leadership in place and the culture fostered by the church.There have been condemnations of the church – and sometimes all religions for that matter – in...
Successor Agency to the Temecula Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously at the Aug. 13 meeting of the Temecula City Council to approve modifications that will lead to the rehabilitation of Mission Village Apartments in Old Town Temecula.Lynn Kelly-Lehner, principal management analyst for the city of Temecula, provided the council with a staff report on the proposed modifications in the public...
The Wildomar City Council authorized a rate increase for waste management collection services that helps the city avoid costly fines from the State of California Wednesday, Aug. 14, as well as approved a new city code making it mandatory for residents to spay, neuter and microchip their pets.During the public hearing portion of the meeting, the council weighed an...
Riverside County firefighters extinguished a fire inside a home in Alberhill Sunday, Aug. 18.The fire at a home in the 13000 block of Leafwood Drive was reported around 8:20 p.m., according to Cal Fire.Cal Fire sent five engines and one truck to the location.The blaze was contained to an upstairs bathroom by 8:48 p.m., fire agency officials said.No injuries...
An increasing number of fatal traffic collisions on the Ramona Expressway from Perris into San Jacinto in the past few months has caught the attention of Hemet and San Jacinto motorists and are under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.The latest fatal accidents on the busy highway occurred Saturday, Aug. 10, and Monday, Aug. 12, two days apart.The first...
Legendary jazz man Boney James once said about album making that “The wheels start to spin and the next thing you know you are galloping full speed.”Well, the horses are out of the barn as Boney, who will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 24, at Thornton Winery, 32575 Rancho California Road in Temecula, as part of the 2019 Champagne...