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Category: Idyllwild News

Arturo Delgado, new San Jacinto District Ranger. Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service

New district ranger begins next week

Share/Bookmark Arturo Delgado has been selected as the new district ranger for the San Jacinto Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest and begins his new assignment Sunday, May 19. He is currently the forest biologist for the Angeles National Forest in Arcadia, Calif. “We are delighted to welcome Arturo to the San Jacinto [...]

Pine Cove Water District reviews 2013-14 budget

Share/BookmarkAt its May 8 meeting, the Pine Cove Water District board of directors began reviewing the proposed budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 that begins July 1. Revenue estimates of $760,000 are the same as this year (2012-13); but expenses increase $65,000 for a total of $825,000. Differences would be made up from a combination of [...]

Irene Long (standing at right), Disaster Services manager for Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange Counties, talks about her organization’s commitment to training Idyllwild volunteers.  Photo by Barbara Reese

Red Cross to work with Idyllwild disaster preparedness groups

Share/BookmarkDr. Dick Goldberg, medical director of Mountain Disaster Preparedness, has long sought to establish a support and training relationship with the American Red Cross — a relationship that acknowledges the Hill would likely be cut off for an extended period if a major earthquake strikes. Key to those plans would be training of locals to [...]

Adam Backlin and Liz Gallegos, U.S. Geological Survey biologists, plant Mountain Yellow-legged Frog eggs in a secure screened box located in plunge pools along the creek in April 2010.          Photo by J.P. Crumrine

Zoo-raised Yellow-legged frogs to be released

Share/BookmarkEfforts to re-establish the native population of Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs will resume in 2013. The initial project will be relocating several hundred frogs — sub-adults — in the James Reserve later this spring, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine. “The last couple of years [...]

News of Record: May 16, 2013

Share/BookmarkFire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, May 6 to 12, 2013: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance May 7 — Medical aid, South Circle Drive, Idyllwild. May 7 — Walk-in medical aid. May 8 — Medical aid, Marion Ridge, Pine Cove. May 9 — Medical aid, Pinecrest Avenue, Idyllwild. [...]

According to CHP Officer Chris Blondon, Friday afternoon about 5 p.m., Timothy Jay Lund, 19, of Hemet was traveling southbound on Highway 243 near Mile Marker 0.25 when he lost control flipping his Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL, landing on it’s roof tossing beer cans and other debris onto the highway. Three passengers were also in the vehicle. The 17-year-old female was transported to a nearby hospital complaining of neck pain. The other two passengers refused medical transport and were picked up by family. Lund was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and for underage drinking. Highway 243 was down to one-lane traffic for about an hour as the scene was processed and cleared.          Photos by Jenny Kirchner

DUI suspected in Mountain Center crash

According to CHP Officer Chris Blondon, Friday afternoon about 5 p.m., Timothy Jay Lund, 19, of Hemet was traveling southbound on Highway 243 near Mile Marker 0.25 when he lost control flipping his Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL, landing on it’s roof tossing beer cans and other debris onto the highway. Three passengers were also in the vehicle. The 17-year-old female was transported to a nearby hospital complaining of neck pain.

Mrs. Longbrook’s first grade class performs a dance routine during Blast to the Past on Friday evening in the Idyllwild School gymnasium. The event is organized by the Associated Student Body. It is an opportunity for students to show off their talents and ASB to raise funds for the school’s many annual field trips. Photo by Halie Johnson

PHOTOS: Idyllwild School Blast to the Past

The event is organized by theAssociated Student Body …

Demise of a Chamber of Commerce: Dissolution by default

Share/BookmarkDavid Jerome, secretary of the moribund Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce, called a meeting of the general membership on Monday, May 13, to begin the process of disposing of Chamber assets. The Chamber no longer has a board of directors authorized to act on behalf of the membership. With the same indifference that characterized an April [...]

Soap Lorn (left) and Ethan Lineberg (center) of J.D Extraction work with Jose Lopez (right) of Frey Environmental removing the underground storage tank monitoring wells at Pine Cove Market.  Photo by J.P. Crumrine

Monitoring wells pulled from Pine Cove Market: County to close underground tank case

Share/BookmarkThe Pine Cove underground storage tank project, which the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health has been monitoring since 1994, is nearly closed. In the absence of any public comments on its notice of proposed closing, the department authorized Frey Environmental to pull its monitoring wells at the Pine Cove Market. This work was completed [...]

Members of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council board are standing outside their office and displaying a Goldspotted oak borer trap. These will begin to appear throughout the community later this spring. From the left, Eliott Taylor; Edwina Scott, executive director; Don Patterson, project manager; Ron Perry and Doris Lombard; Mike Esnard, president, Pat Boss, project manager; and Thomas McCullough, treasurer. Photo by J.P. Crumrine

Fire Safe Council is 24th recipient of Greenwood Award

Presentation Saturday at Earth Fair celebration …

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