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🌱 What Hemet’s new city manager deal means for residents

And check out Fall Fest at San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse on the Hemet Patch calendar

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Good morning Hemet! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Hemet's new city manager deal means for residents
  • Hemet mourns 21-year-old resident killed on Mountain Center road
  • How a Hemet-linked gang surfaced in a federal hate-crime case

Also on today's calendar: Fall Fest at San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Sunshine and sweltering heat, with a high of 99 and low of 62 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Sunshine and sweltering heat, temps: high: 100, low: 68.
  • Saturday: Very hot; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 99 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hemet council appoints Ernie Reyna city manager (hsjchronicle.com) — Hemet residents have a new city manager: Ernest "Ernie" Reyna, whose contract the City Council unanimously approved and who is expected to start Nov. 2, 2026. Councilmembers backed a multi‑year agreement with annual raises and adjourned their meeting to Oct. 13, though the full contract text was not yet posted online.
   

• Hemet man dies on McCall Park Road in Mountain Center (hsjchronicle.com) — A 21-year-old Hemet resident, Reese Whitney, has been identified as the person who died Friday morning along McCall Park Road in Mountain Center, according to the county coroner. Authorities say the California Highway Patrol is investigating the circumstances of the crash, which occurred in the mountains above the San Jacinto Valley.
   

• Two alleged White supremacists indicted, third man pleads guilty in Oceanside Pier hate-crime rampage (sandiegouniontribune.com) — Federal prosecutors say two alleged White supremacists tied to a Hemet-based street gang have been indicted, while a third man pleaded guilty, in a series of racially motivated attacks near the Oceanside Pier that injured three people, including two Marines. The case highlights federal scrutiny of extremist activity with reported roots in Hemet and elsewhere in Southern California.
   

📸 Around Hemet

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday October 1
  • Loving Solutions Parent Workshop
    District Office, 2045 S. San Jacinto Ave, San Jacinto
    9:00 am
  • WVHS Frosh/Soph Football vs Tahquitz
    Helen Hunt Jackson College Prep High School & Family Tree Learning Center Hemet, CA 92544
    4:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Hi, neighbors.
    I felt compelled to post this, to help my neighbors avoid the same scam. My Samsung gas dryer broke down (I think it's maybe 12 to 15 years old,… (Nextdoor Four Seasons)
  • Hi community, a friend just contacted me about some babies her 85 yr old grandma is helping.
    She has a feral (friendly) community cat that she feeds and the cat had a litter. There's 5 in total all girls (they think). Grandma has done a great… (Nextdoor Mary Henley Park)
  • Starbucks Corporation posted a job opening for shift supervisor - Store# 64622, FLORIDA AVE & STANFORD ST., HEMET in Hemet. Apply here.
  • Sizzler USA Restaurants, Inc. posted a job opening for Cashier in Hemet. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hemet here.

🗞 Nearby News

San Jacinto

  • San Jacinto fatal crash at Ramona Expressway and E Seventh (hsjchronicle.com)
  • An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they're ready for the wild (dnronline.com)

Menifee

  • Stacked Farm breaks ground on first U.S. farm in Menifee (menifee247.com)
  • 'There's always hope': NAMI leader shares message in Suicide Prevention Month (menifee247.com)
  • Woman accused in hit-and-run death of teenager pleads not guilty (menifee247.com)

Banning

  • Gunshots And Screaming Lead Police To Cache Of Weapons In Banning, Gunman Arrested (patch.com)

Ok Hemet! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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