

New HELP Center board introduced
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The new 2012 Idyllwild HELP Center board members (from left) Bill Whitman, Dick Hadick (treasurer), Sam Crowell, Deanna Collins (vice president), Doug Austin, Steve Taylor, Karen Patterson (executive director), Lou Bacher (president), Linda Anderson, and Margaret Mary Leusch (secretary). Member Holly Maag is not in the photograph. Photo courtesy of Colleen Manchee

On Thursday, March 27, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station arrested Wayne Sleme, 39, of Idyllwild, on multiple charges. He currently is being held in the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility until his arraignment Tuesday, April 1, at the court in Banning. Five charges were filed, three of which were felonies — burglary,…
At the last Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission meeting, Paul Riggi, president of Volunteer Company 621, mentioned federal legislation that may benefit volunteer fire companies such as Idyllwild’s. H.R. 343 would amend the Internal Revenue Code to encourage people to volunteer for firefighting or emergency medical service. The bill would allow individuals to value each…
How rare is it to have a team, in any league sport, to go an entire season undefeated and finish winning the league championship? In the NFL (football), the 2007 New England Patriots finished the regular season undefeated 16-0, yet ended the entire season, including the playoffs, at 18-1. That one loss was Super Bowl…
Despite the rainfall this weekend, the National Weather Service is not optimistic about a significant wet winter in Southern California. During his October weather briefing, Alex Tardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s San Diego office, said, “Our forecast models … predict that El Niño conditions will develop. It’ll go into a weak phase when…
As of Saturday evening, nearly 4 days after the voting booths have closed, about two-thirds of the ballots cast in the 2018 Election have been counted. According the Registrar of Voters Office, about 355,000 ballots have been counted. Another 200,000, mail-in and provisional, ballots, are still be counted. Based on the number of registered voters,…
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