Idyllwild Water District’s (IWD) first Idyllwild School Water Scholarship contest first place winner for posters is ninth grader Elizabeth Flores.IWD President Charles Schelly thanks her for her winning submission. PHOTO BY PETER SZABADI

The Idyllwild Fire Protection District will have four candidates competing for three seats. Incumbent directors Rhonda Andrewson, commission president, Ralph Hoetger and Henry Sawicki will be on the ballot along with challenger Andrew Balendy. Andrewson was elected to the Commission in 2013. Since then the Commission has moved elections to even numbered years and this…

Last week, the state’s Board of Equalization began mailing the Fire Prevention Fee bills for fiscal year 2014-15. Many of more than 700,000 rural Californians are receiving a bill for the fourth time. About 10,000 bills will be sent each day in alphabetical order by county. The mailing schedule may be viewed at calfirefee.com. The…

One injury crash, requiring medical transport, took place in Idyllwild over the last week along with a fender bender on Highway 74 above Palm Desert. At 10:26 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, Miguel Pablo Lopez, 23, of Idyllwild, was driving his silver 2008 Ford Focus southbound on Highway 243, 268 feet south of Riverside County Playground…