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6 days ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Menifee seniors and many of their family members attended the annual Sun City Senior Expo & Wellness Fair with more than 70 service providers lending valuable wellness information at the Sun City Civic Association Hall on Saturday, May 3.Seniors and their families had the opportunity to have a free lunch after visiting at least 30 of the providers’ tables in both the North Webb Hall and the North Town Hall of the Civic Center on Sun City Blvd.
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6 days ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Residents from East Hemet, Valle Vista, and Hemet voiced strong opposition at the March 25 Hemet City Council meeting to a petition, signed by approximately 1,550 Hemet residents, seeking to annex East Hemet and Valle Vista into the city’s Sphere of Influence.Objecting to the petition, reportedly created by Hemet United, and their efforts to bring the council to consider annexing those areas, was questioned by long-time Hemet resident Chuck Benson, who expressed his concern that if annexed,...
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1 week ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Residents and motorists who are planning to enter northbound 15 using the Temecula Parkway on-ramp are advised to plan for an extended closure of the ramp.
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1 week ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Wildomar City Manager Daniel York, beginning Friday, May 9, will be leaving his post for a planned retirement, according to Janet Morales, acting city manager. Yor has been on administrative leave since his retirement announcement last month.York will receive a severance payment in the amount of $44,026.66, which is equivalent to 2 months’ pay.He has served as City Manager since Feb. 2, 2022.
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1 week ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Lease continuesA property in Hemet occupied by Harbor Freight Tools has been sold for $2.2 million. The 20,500-square-foot store at 1735 W. Florida Ave. sits on a 1.1-acre site and was renovated two years ago, according to Avison Young, a commercial real estate firm based in Toronto.The company’s Los Angeles office represented the seller, an LLP whose name was not released.
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1 week ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
During the March of Remembrance in Murrieta on May 4, Jewish Holocaust survivor Eva Schneider shared the story of three miracles she experienced as a preteen during the horrific years of 1943 to 1945, when she and her family were marked for death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.The audience and marchers in March of Remembrance were held in soulful silence at Murrieta Mesa High School’s Gershwin Performing Arts Center, at the end of the march as Schnieder told her amazing story of survival in...
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2 weeks ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
A car crashed through a house on Highway 74, east of Hemet, setting it on fire and required the closure of the highway to the mountain communities of Idyllwild and Mountain Center Monday, April, 28, according to the California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire.The full closure of the busy highway followed the event that occurred around 3 p.m. and lasted for more than three hours with more than a dozen fire and law enforcement units called to the scene.
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3 weeks ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
More than a thousand excited youngsters gathered at the Diamond Valley Community Park’s ballfields filling their Easter baskets with some of the 20,000 plastic Easter eggs filled with candy treats and other surprises on Saturday, April 19. The annual Easter weekend Valley-Wide Park and Recreation District event brought on a new sponsor this year, Vallarta Supermarkets. They handed out Easter doughnuts to children and adults before the highly anticipated egg hunts.
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3 weeks ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
Earlier this month, the Riverside County Transportation Commission voted to remove a large number of the familiar highway call boxes across the country, and all of them by the end of the year. The move was related to the significant drop in the use of the call boxes with the advent of more motorists using their cellphones or built-in emergency call service in their vehicles.
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3 weeks ago | 
myvalleynews.com | Tony Ault
The introduction of California's latest fire hazard severity zone for Murrieta and progress on the future Keller Road/Interstate 215 interchange highlighted the Murrieta City Council meeting on April 15.The five-member council also approved a construction project on Murrieta Hot Springs Road and Alta Murrieta Drive, one of the city's busiest intersections.Fire Chief Bernard Molloy explained to the council that the Fire Safety Zone map had nothing to do with his department’s input and was...
