A local man was convicted and sentenced in San Bernardino last week for an Oct. 13 robbery at a WalMart store in Ontario. Jonathan Lee Henderson, 32, of Mountain Center, pleaded nolo contendere (or no contest) to a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge and requested immediate sentencing. He was sentenced to 180 days in…

Idyllwild School’s Academic Performance Index (API) for the recently completed 2011-12 school year improved to 873 from 844. For the first time, Idyllwild is in the top statewide rank of schools with similar size and demographics. Idyllwild’s improvement of 29 points was the best in the Hemet Unified School District. Helen Hunt Jackson Alternative gained…

Community is literally the Idyllwild Community Fund’s middle name. In 1995, a local couple anonymously established ICF to better the quality of life of mountain-top residents. Their dream was to establish and grow a fund to financially assist the important work of many local nonprofits. Because of their dream, ICF is able to answer more…