State fire officials ready for intense fire season
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared May 6 through May 12 as “Wildfire Awareness Week” …
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May 15, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Forestry board policy aims to control oak borer
Share/Bookmark Last month, the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection adopted a policy that allows CALFIRE to enter into agreements with both public and private landowners and governmental agencies, including the federal government, for controlling the spread of the goldspotted oak borer. This is a first step in adopting interdiction policies and regulations [...]
Verizon to discontinue stand-alone Internet
Share/BookmarkIn a nationwide move that took effect on Sunday, May 6, Verizon will discontinue stand-alone Internet DSL for new customers and existing customers who make changes to their accounts or move to a new location. From the effective date forward, all Verizon Internet must be coupled or bundled with a Verizon landline, except for current [...]
May 11, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Propositions 28 and 29 seem familiar: Term limits and tobacco tax
Share/BookmarkOnce again California voters are being asked to use their collective wisdom to address what some see as problems in the terms California legislators serve and how to raise money through what is sometimes called a “sin” tax. Proposition 28 addresses term limits, which California embraced 22 years ago, and which voters had previously considered [...]
May 11, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Assemblyman wants to amend California’s fire fee
Share/BookmarkState Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro (D, Assembly District 1, North Coast) has submitted a bill to modify the state’s recently enacted fire prevention fee. Assembly Bill 2474 won approval from the Natural Resources Committee Monday, May 7. The bill is intended to make fire protection fees assessed to property owners in State Responsibility Areas more equitable, [...]
May 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Dennis versus Gould for board of education
Share/BookmarkWe begin our June primary election coverage with the race for the 4th trustee district for the Riverside County Board of Education, which includes the Idyllwild area. Contending for a full four-year term are Bruce Dennis, appointed last June to the board, and challenger Bill Gould. Dennis is postmaster for the city of Walnut and [...]
New General Educational Development tests in 2014
Share/BookmarkBeginning Jan. 1, 2014, GED Testing Service will release a new version of the General Educational Development test. This new version will be administered solely on the computer. All paper testing will be eliminated as of Jan. 1, 2014. Any applicants who have taken the GED between 2002 and Dec. 31, 2013, must complete all [...]
May 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Vote-by-mail or early voting for June 5 primary
Share/BookmarkApproximately 390,000 vote-by-mail ballots were mailed to Riverside County voters starting May 7 for the consolidated primary election on June 5. Ballots should arrive in mailboxes by the end of the week. To be counted in the upcoming election, the registrar of voters office must receive the voted ballots by 8 p.m. June 5. Vote-by-mail [...]
May 9, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
HUSD extends contract with teachers group
Share/BookmarkThe Hemet Unified School District board unanimously approved an agreement with the Hemet Teachers Association for fiscal year 2012-2013. No proposed teacher or staff reductions were part of the agreement or the district’s tentative budget for the next fiscal year. The agreement continues the 178-day school year, a six-day reduction from the normal 184 days. [...]
May 9, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
HUSD transitional kindergarten registration open
Share/BookmarkHemet Unified School District is registering students for transitional kindergarten and kindergarten now at the Centralized Registration Office. The state’s Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 changed the age of admission for kindergarten and first grade and established a transitional kindergarten program beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Transitional kindergarten is the first year of a [...]
May 9, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
