Hemet News

The Saturday, May 19, Casey Abrams concert at the Hemet Theatre produced lots of great music captured in pictures by readers, including exceptional shots by Eric Galletta of Park Hill Music Group.

Tahquitz Rock, also known as Lily Rock, is a popular destination for rock climbers, one of whom died there on Friday, May 17, 2013.

The City Council voted unanimously in favor of the project as part of the consent calendar at its meeting Tuesday, May 14.

Phil Paule, Eastern Municipal Water District board member, on left, and Rosemary Morillo,chairwoman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, talk in June 2012 to Behrooz Mortazavi, who at the time was an Eastern staff member about imported water delivery to percolation ponds in the San Jacinto Riverbed.

The West Valley High School Dance Department will be present its spring dance concert, "On Broadway," at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

Soccer players Denise Aguilar and Karina Precido will both attend Missouri Valley College next season.

DeSantis, 50, was named to the position Wednesday, May 15, by City Manager Michelle Dawson, who was appointed to her position the previous night.

The Highway 74 paving in the San Jacinto Mountains involves one-way traffic controls with flaggers during daylight hours.

Federal agents served a search warrant on a Hemet home on Wednesday, May 15, but the nature of the investigation at the house in the 1200 block of Palomino Court was not disclosed.

Bishop Gerald Barnes, right, will preside over a mass on Sunday, May 19, in the Ramona Bowl that will include all four Catholic parishes from the San Jacinto Valley.

Abraham Saldana is one of the participants in the EEK Fitness children's weekly art classes at the newest Cops 4 Kids venue in Hemet.

I will be tweeting from the 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, council meeting. It's 2013-14 budget planning time so there is a special workshop T-34's fly in formation during the last Hemet-Ryan Air Show at the airport in Hemet in June 2011.

Winchester Elementary students dance to "Veggie Style," a song written to the tune of "Gangnam Style" that promotes healthy eating habits, Tuesday, May 14.

A structure burns on Patterson Avenue in Winchester on Tuesday, May 15, 2013. The fire destroyed several outbuildings and damaged one dwelling, fire officials said.

More than a hundred bicyclists will come racing through town this afternoon, bringing with them a series of road closures.

Stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California Cycling race got underway this morning at Town Square Park in Murrieta.

Following an extensive investigation spanning several months, Santa Barbara Sheriff's detectives arrested 26-year-old Andre Clayton of Hemet, California, who is wanted in connection to burglaries at Vieja Valley School and Laguna Blanca School, said Sheriff's spokesperson Kelly Hoover.

The lead riders turn the corner at State Street and Stetson Avenue in Hemet during the Amgen Tour of California on Monday, May 13.

The Board of Supervisors tomorrow is expected to authorize Riverside County fire Chief John Hawkins to close access to seven hiking and off-road sites where fire danger is high in the summer months.

The Amgen Tour of California is about to start in Murrieta and Hemetians are getting ready to watch when professional bike racing begin speeding through the San Jacinto Valley a little before noon.