After several months of discussion, the directors of the Idyllwild Water District approved an ordinance for mandatory recycled water use.   The new ordinance mandates the use of recycled water “for the following purposes: agricultural irrigation, construction use, landscape irrigation, landscape and or recreation impoundments and wildlife habitat.” The board also declared the use of…

Officials with San Bernardino National Forest (SBNF) are requesting comments by April 25 regarding a communications use lease to a private company. “The Forest Service proposes to designate the Mountain Center Communications Site and issue a communications use lease to Renegade Towers, LLC, as a facility manager for: the construction, operation and maintenance of a…

Three traffic crashes took place over the last week on Hill roads, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. At 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, Matthew Stuart, 20, of Hemet, was driving his white 2002 Mazda Protégé sedan westbound on Highway 74, 300 feet east of Strawberry Creek, when he made an…