
Two days left for Idyllwild film fest
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At 9:50 p.m. on Friday, March 22, Dustin Kinser, 29, of Aguanga, was driving a white 1990 Dodge Ram truck westbound on Highway 74, 1 mile east of Ribbonwood Drive, when, for unknown reasons, he made an unsafe turning movement. The vehicle careened into a guardrail, damaging 10 feet of the structure and causing moderate…
About 4:50 a.m. Tuesday, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake occurred about 9 miles north of Cabazon. The earth trembled as far south as San Diego and west to Santa Clarita. Four other temblors followed this quake. Their magnitudes ranged from 2.2 to 3.2. The last one recorded was about 5:40 a.m. No major damage has been reported….
The 2015 Idyllwild Earth Fair has been permanently canceled for this year. Organizers still plan to have a 2016 Earth Fair. In May, the 2015 Fair was postponed to September and now, due to unexpected circumstances, the Fair will not be held this year. The Idyllwild Earth Fair was founded in 1990 by a group…
Highway 74 is open from Idyllwild to Hemet. Earlier this morning, Monday, April 7, the road was temporarily closed in both directions. According Terri Kasinga, Chief, Public and Legislative Affairs, for Caltrans District 8, provided the following information,the abutments constructed in recent weeks at the site, “… held up most of the slide.” Caltrans was…
Earlier this month, U.S. Forest Service firefighting tactics came under attack by Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology, which issued a report severely critical of the approach used on the Soberanes Fire in 2016. In July 2016, started by an illegal campfire, the Soberanes Fire burned more than 130,000 acres, including 57 homes. It…
The U.S. forest Service was conducting pile burning along the West Ridge Fuelbreak Thursday, taking advantage of favorable weather conditions. The “Burn Boss” was Brett Pascale of the Vista Grande Hotshots, according to San Jacinto Ranger District Fire Chief Dan Felix.