

Kindergarten registration opens at Idyllwild School
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Idyllwild Elementary School is now registering children for the kindergarten session of fall 2012. Mary Norris (right), secretary at Idyllwild School, gives a registration packet to Rocio Lopez for her daughter Dayra Lopez. School Principal Matt Kraemer looks on. Photo by Careena Chase

As Easter approaches, four people are still officially missing from the Idyllwild and surrounding areas. Roy Prifogle, Lydia “Dia” Abrams, Diana Perez Gonzalez and Melissa Lane have not been located. According to Prifogle’s daughter Kendra Johnson, a new search and rescue operation is scheduled for April 17. They are asking citizen volunteers to participate, unlike…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, Jan. 18 to 24. Idyllwild • Jan. 18 — Medical aid, street not given. • Jan. 19 — Medical aid, street not given. • Jan. 19 — Cover assignment, standby, move up, street not given. • Jan. 20 — Smoke scare,…
Mile High Radio Club (MHRC) president Bill Tell shared a document (on page A3) “outlining several ongoing projects” the club “is actively engaged in.” “This document was started several years ago when we were asked to participate in the Community Wildfire Protection Plan revisions,” Tell wrote. “We have advanced several projects over the past several…
CAL FIRE crews removed a 140-year-old California black oak (quercus kelloggii), the first local casualty of the Goldspotted Oak Borer that has killed over 80,000 trees in San Diego County. The removal process, which closed Highway 243 in both directions just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, took about 45 minutes. GSOB targets California…
With no major fires in Southern California, Hill fire agencies were able to hold the quarterly Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting last week. Work on fuel breaks, including burns, were the major topics and some personnel changes will occur in the U.S. Forest Service’s San Jacinto Ranger District early in 2019 as well as Rivereside…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District has announced a special meeting for Tuesday, Jan. 7. The purpose of the special session is to discuss the District contract with Riverside County for emergency dispatch services. The contract between IFPD and the county expires on March 11. There are two one-year extension, and a 60-day notification clause, according…