The Riverside County Planning Commission has canceled its meeting for 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. One of the items on the agenda was the Idyllwild Community Center’s conditional use permit. The Planning Department notified ICC President Janice Lyle on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 1, that the county had improperly noticed the ICC project.  The planning commission…

At their October 9 meeting Directors of Pine Cove Water District reviewed the district’s latest audit over Zoom with Brianna Schultz, a partner from their accounting firm, Rogers, Anderson, Malody & Scott. The firm gave PCWD an “unmodified” or “clean” audit opinion, the highest rating. The overall “net position”, which includes capital and liquid assets…

  The Idyllwild Water District lost two of its five directors in September. Former President James Billman and Director Mike Frietas resigned unexpectedly within the same week. The remaining directors have not be able to appoint replacements because Vice President John Cook prefers to wait and hold an election in March 2017. Regardless of the…

Halloween decorations are going up all around us; jack o’lanterns, skeletons and other spooky figures provide delightfully macabre touches to our neighborhoods, but one increasingly common decoration has been targeted as dangerous to wildlife: artificial spiderwebs. The most common material is a type of polyester, similar to fiberglass or cotton in appearance, and social media…