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By Wilson, Johnny & Halie

Photo by Halie Johnson



























Chief Hewitt was born and raised in Southern California. Within two weeks of his graduation from Duarte High School in Los Angeles County, near the San Gabriel Mountains, Hewitt was on the Oak Grove Hot Shots team. That was the first step in his career goal of becoming a firefighter. From the age of 5 or 6, Hewitt knew that is what he wanted to become.
Members of Idyllwild Arts Academy staff discussed the plans for a new campus health center at last week’s Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission meeting. “The new health center will be an extraordinary resource for us,” John Newman, Dean of Students and Director of Operations, told the fire commission. He said the new facility would be…
Brendan Steele will be carrying a slew of new sticks when he opens his main 2015 PGA Tour at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation in La Quinta this week. The native Idyllwilder will be pounding a TaylorMade driver for the first time, a model SLDR, and his 3-wood will be one…
While we’re bracing for yet another COVID surge, our community’s essential workers press on, serving the public and meeting our needs while risking their own health in the process. These folk staff our health centers, law enforcement agencies, fire stations, ambulances, help center, food distribution projects, post offices, markets, pharmacy, library, water districts, restaurants, filling…
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Riverside County Planning Commission approved the conditional use permit for the Idyllwild Community Center site. The commission vote was unanimous, although it did add one more condition to the CUP. After several months of delay and unexpected postponements, the San Jacinto Mountain Community Center board, led by President Janice Lyle,…
At its June 17 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved the closure of seven areas with Riverside County because of fire hazards. County Fire Chief John Hawkins recommended the closures because of the potential for large, damaging fires enhanced by the continuing drought conditions this year. Public roadways and private property are not…