


Students lauded by principal Kraemer
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One of the fun awards was when Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer had to do a student’s work for 15 minutes. First-grader Octavia Several chose homework, which apparently Principal Kraemer does not like to do either.



Caltrans’ latest update for the week of October 5 previews work on two locations north of town on drainage culverts. According to their Alert: “Week of October 5th, several daytime work activities with lane closures and flagging /pilot car operations will occur various locations on SR-243 throughout the week between the hours 8 a.m. to…
Cal Fire/ Riverside County Fire Department is conducting a prescribed burn at the Mountain Resource Center on Franklin Drive. The burn will cover about six acres and started about 8:45 and should be finished about noon. It purpose is to eliminate timber litter (after tree thinning occurred on the site this year)…
Once again, it’s that summer kick-off event that celebrates everything that makes Idyllwild a tonic for the body and the soul …
Hot weather and lower fuel moisture have prompted the San Bernardino National Forest to increase fire restrictions, effective Thursday September 1, 2011. Forest officials are taking these steps to prevent human-caused fires and raise public awareness as the summer continues to get warmer and dryer. Most wildfires on the San Bernardino National Forest are human-caused…
A Vista Grande Hotshot died fighting a fire in western Montana, the U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday. Firefighter Brent Witham died Wednesday, Aug. 2, on the Lolo Peak Fire, burning on the Lolo National Forest in Montana, San Bernardino National Forest Supervisor Jody Noiron announced with great sadness. “Witham’s death was the result of a…
Nearly seven months after two men were arrested for a triple homicide that occurred eight years ago, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all the charges against Robert Lars Pape and Cristin Conrad Smith. In March, a grand jury indicted Pape and Smith, but because he was under 17 years old at the…