Idyllwild Garden Club new board members named

The Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) commission adopted its response to the June grand jury report on the fire district and President Pete Capparelli signed the letter the same evening. Three commissioners —Capparelli, Vice President Paul Riggi and Treasurer Ben Killingsworth — unanimously agreed to the language in their response to the grand jury at…

Highways 74 and 371 were the locations for multiple Hill traffic incidents over the previous week, according to California Highway Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. In one, reported in pictures in this edition, a motorcyclist, Lawrence Galluzzo, 44, of Riverside, was traveling at an unsafe speed westbound on Highway 74 on Saturday near the intersection…

In January 2016, the Community Action Partnership and County Health Department moved the Idyllwild Warming Center from the American Legion to Town Hall.  On Friday, Dec. 9, Danny Richardson, Legion Post 800 commander, signed an agreement with CAP and the county to return the center to the Legion. In its most recent press release, CAP…

Idyllwild local Taylor Dravenstatt, 24, previously sent to state prison for felony burglary in 2013, was sentenced for a second felony burglary of a Perris residence that occurred on Sept. 6, 2016. As part of the minute order from the sentencing proceeding on Friday, Nov. 18, Dravenstatt’s burglary charge was reduced from first to second…

On Dec. 15, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved its proposed 2022 Scoping Plan, which identifies policies and actions needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next 20 years. An 85% reduction is the goal to achieve carbon neutrality in 2045. Only three weeks later, on Jan. 4, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO)…