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SERVING TEMECULA , MURRIETA , L AKE E LSINOR E , M ENIFEE , WILDOMAR , H EMET, SAN JACINTO AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES June 14 – 20, 2024
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Murrieta residents sink deeper Murrieta’s ‘Santa Stops’ to continue into groundwater struggle as local annually as a public/private event authorities remain MIA Local News
Tony Ault Staf f Writer
The return of the Murrieta Santa Stops holiday program last Christmas brought praise for its success from a number of volunteers and residents which convinced the Murrieta City Council to again make it an annual “Connected with Community” event this year during their Tuesday, June 5, meeting. see page A-2
Local News THS announces presentation with cowgirl Pat North Ommert TEMECULA - The Temecula Valley Historical Society invites the public to a trip down memory lane when Pat North Ommert gives a presentation at the Little Temecula History Museum at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 24. Pat, who has been inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, will tell about her illustrious career as a horsewoman and she will also tell what Temecula was like when she moved here in the 1960s. see page C-4
Murrieta resident John Perry shows the excessive groundwater problem that he and his neighbors face daily. Julie Reeder Publisher
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Residents on Arron Ct. in Murrieta, are grappling with persistent excessive groundwater issues,
which they claim the city authorities attribute to a newly emerged natural spring on their properties. Despite numerous pleas for assistance, they claim the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and
the City of Murrieta have distanced themselves from the problem, leaving homeowners frustrated and seeking resolution. Pamela Race, a homeowner on Arron Ct., recounts the ordeal that
Valley News/Julie Reeder photo began shortly after moving into her residence in August 2023. “In December 2023, we began noticing an excessive amount of water see GROUNDWATER, page A-4
TVUSD recall leads by slim majority
Julie Reeder Publisher
TVUSD Board President Dr. Komrosky was the subject of a recall election June 4, 2024. As of Tuesday, June 11, at noon, the vote to recall TVUSD Board President Joseph Wayne Komrosky in Trustee Area 4 was too close to call with the “yes” votes ahead by about 209 votes, as of presstime. The final results were to be announced on June 11, at 6 p.m. after all the mail-in and conditional votes are counted. According to the Registrar of Voters (ROV) there are still votes
to be received and counted. “An estimated 150 Vote-by-Mail ballots and 50 Conditional Voter Registration (CVR) ballots remain to be counted. “In addition, Vote-by-Mail ballots postmarked on or before Election Day (June 4) must be received by June 11, 2024 (postmark +7) and remain to be processed. The team will resume work on these ballots on Thursday, June 6th. The next updated results will be posted at 6 pm on Tuesday, June 11.” Dr. Komrosky, a veteran Army Ranger and tenured professor, along with a conservative board majority, came under fire im-
mediately after being elected in 2022. Opponents, organized by One Temecula Valley PAC, were concerned that the board voted to remove Critical Race Theory from the classrooms. They didn’t agree with the new parent notification policy when students started to identify differently than the sex they were identified as in their school records. The board also voted to limit political and ideological flags in the classrooms. After parents read aloud in board meetings materials that they considered pornographic, the board created a see RECALL, page A-2
TVUSD Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky was the subject of a recall election. Valley News/Courtesy photo
Menifee City Council gives the go ahead for the Krikorian Theater to be torn down
Tony Ault Staf f Writer
The issue of what to do with the unfinished and deteriorating Krikorian Entertainment Complex that has sat on the southwest corner of Newport Road and Town Center Road in Menifee over the past four years may soon be resolved with an order from the Menifee City Council to tear it down as a “public nuisance.” With Council member Dean Deines absent for medical reasons, the Menifee City Council meeting Wednesday, June 5, resolved to declare the Kirkorian theater complex, not the retail buildings, a public nuisance and its abatement, possible within 30 days. It still could be appealed by the see KRIKORIAN, page A-2
The Krikorian Entertainment Complex has been declared a public nuisance. Valley News/”The Agenda Rundown” YouTube screenshot