Share/Bookmark The Riverside County Waste Management Department will host a free backyard composting workshop in Idyllwild on Saturday (June 8). Attend this “how-to” workshop to learn how to recycle organic resources such as yard trimmings, fruit and vegetable waste into a dark, crumbly, sweet-smelling soil conditioner. Compost can be used to enrich the soil in [...]
Share/BookmarkMark Dean and wife Margie are OK following the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Dean had finished his race about 20 minutes prior to the two blasts and both he and Margie were several blocks away from the explosions when they occurred. Mark Dean, Pine Cove resident, is running in the Boston Marathon. Live updates [...]
Share/BookmarkA 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Hill just before 10 a.m. Monday, March 11. Initially reported as a 5.2 quake by the United States Geological Survey, the temblor was preceded by 6 foreshocks, the largest of which was a 2.7 magnitude at 10:36 a.m. The quake was centered 12.4 miles east southeast of Anza, at [...]
There was an audible gasp when Mountain Battalion Chief Gregg Bratcher announced to a packed Town Hall meeting that there are two more confirmed Goldspotted oak borer infected trees in Idyllwild …
Share/BookmarkRiverside County Sheriff’s deputies arrested local Alfredo Tartaglia on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse. According to an RCSD Hemet station press release, Tartaglia was arrested after witnesses and a surveillance video confirmed his identity. Deputies arrested him at his residence after a brief struggle and booked him into the [...]
Share/BookmarkCAL FIRE crews removed a 140-year-old California black oak (quercus kelloggii), the first local casualty of the Goldspotted Oak Borer that has killed over 80,000 trees in San Diego County. The removal process, which closed Highway 243 in both directions just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, took about 45 minutes. GSOB targets California [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Goldspotted oak borer, the non-native beetle that has killed more than 80,000 oaks in San Diego County, has been positively identified in an Idyllwild oak, on Highway 243 near the center of town. Currently, entomologists know of no native California predator or insecticidal defense against the tree killer. A DNA analysis, conducted by the [...]
Share/BookmarkA magnitude 3.9 earthquake occurred about 12:45 a.m. this morning (Oct. 28). The epicenter was located about 6 miles) southeast of Valle Vista and 7 miles west southwest from Idyllwild. Comments on the earthquake were received from locations as far as 170 miles away. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/ci/15237073/us/index.html) Homes in Idyllwild did shake. No notices of damage or [...]
Share/BookmarkSouthern California Edison plans an electrical outage affecting upper Fern Valley on Tuesday, Oct. 30 during the hours from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. The cited reason is line maintenance. The outage boundaries are on the north Forest and Forest Haven Drives, east Forest Drive, west Forest Haven and south, Silver Tip Lane. Affected households [...]
Share/Bookmark Tuesday evening, a partially decomposed body was found near Highway 243 and Jameson Drive, in Idyllwild. Darryl Crocker and Ken Lee, both of Pine Cove, had found the body and reported the discovery to Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies and investigators from the Hemet Station responded to the scene about 7:30 p.m. Lee’s [...]
