

Garden Club hosts ‘Discovering Mountain Gardening’
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In addition to live plants and seeds, the Idyllwild Garden Club also had on sale more than two-dozen bulb varieties that were packaged with full color photographs and planting instructions. All the packets, totaling 3,000 bulbs, were sold within the first hour.


The past week offered a panoply of weather — rain, lightning, thunder, sunshine and wind. Residents encountered this variety of celestial entertainment and then the shock of no electricity for more than 24 hours. As the weekend’s sky violence passed, the fabled Santa Ana winds began arriving Monday. The bursts were forecast and Southern California…
A small fire resulted in the evacuation of a dormitory at the IdyllwildArts Academy on Sunday, September 15. A letter from Academy PresidentPamela Jordan to the Associates of Idyllwild Arts noted that allstudents were safe and there were no injuries. The displaced studentshave been moved to other dorms, “where many are housed three to a…
Our readers’ responses continue to be overwhelming. We still have a way to go, but after less than five weeks of the new Membership model, we are more than 40 percent of the way to the minimum annual amount we estimate we will need from Memberships for the newspaper to be acquirable by younger publishers…
Winter is just beginning, yet fire agencies are still active and making announcements. The Forest Service has begun a series of prescribed burns throughout the San Bernardino National Forest. Many of these have been and will be in the San Jacinto Ranger District. For Idyllwild residents, the broadcast burn on the Pine Cove fuel break…
The Idyllwild Water District Board of Directors held a workshop with Interim General Manager Jack Hoagland and Chief Financial Officer Hosny Shouman to help relatively new board members better familiarize themselves with district policies, infrastructure, issues and projects.
Board meeting later this month The Fern Valley Water District currently has a vacant board seat. Former Director George Rowell resigned in March. His full term ends December 2021. The district advertised the vacancy and requested indications of interest to be submitted by the Friday, May 17, board meeting. Fred Hamblin and James Gates, both…