

Raven cause of brief power interruption
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Idyllwild suffered brief interruption of electric power on Monday morning when a raven landed on the Southern California Edison (SCE) Lower Pine Crest power substation. Photo by Cid Castillo

For over 20 years, smARTS has been delivering enriching arts education to students of the Idyllwild School. An all-volunteer, grant-funded program, they work with the school’s Parent Teacher Organization to bring professionals from many disciplines within the arts into the classroom. The program is a testament to what parents and others can accomplish locally with…
Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit, working with Hemet Station deputies and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Aviation, responded to Christmas Day reports of an overdue and lost hiker. According to the Sheriff’s department press release, the 35-year-old man from San Diego began his hiking on Saturday, Dec. 22, from the Highway 74 intersection with the Pacific Crest…
“We need to protect human life, property and critical natural resources,” San Jacinto District Ranger Arturo Delgado said, explaining the closure of nearly 16,000 acres for the next 12 months. According to Delgado, the area of National Forest Service lands the closure affects is less than 7 percent of NFS lands comprising the San Jacinto…
The Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 shot has an additional warning on its label as of July 12: Guillain-Barré syndrome. The Mayo Clinic defines the syndrome as “a rare disorder in which your body’s immune system attacks your nerves. Weakness and tingling in your extremities are usually the first symptoms.“These sensations can quickly spread, eventually paralyzing…
The evacuation of Idyllwild created an unintended consequence for the Idyllwild Water District. With many fewer people in town, demand on the wastewater treatment plant plummeted. This can be a problem for nourishing the bacteria that clean the water. “With the evacuation, [there were] no businesses or camps, thus no organic material for the biological…
Idyllwild Fire went to 16 mutual aid fires in 2018 Local artist and sculptor Jan Jaspers-Fayer offered an artwork to the Idyllwild Fire Protection District and the Board of Commissioners accepted it. The piece, a memorial sculpture of 9/11, is his design and made of steel plates. It is the numbers “9 and 11” in…