The newspaper published yearly special magazine editions to honor the annual Ramona Pageant in Hemet. In 1939, it distributed "one of the biggest weekly newspaper editions in California's history – 76 pages, the largest ever published in Riverside County.""The Hemet News Issues Largest 'Ramona' Edition," San Bernardino County Sun, April 28, 1939, p. 6 Later, the supplement became a 180-page magazine that won national and state awards."Managing Editor of Hemet News Dies," San Bernardino County Sun, July 21, 1987, p. 16
