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Thursday’s Idyllwild Community Fund reception preceded the announcement of the award winners. Here Gigi Kramer serves a table dinner and Summer Brown mans the beverage table. Photo by Barbara Reese

Wildfires can create chaos, loss and destruction. As people return following an evacuation, they express gratitude to firefighters informally and graciously. The July Cranston Fire was no exception. Except the sight of the burn scars and lingering smell of smoke inspired Keith Blum of Palm Springs to create a tribute to the firefighters of this…
Thursday, March 28, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)issued a proposed decision on how large, investor-owned utilities maycharge for electricity in California. In the future, the utility bills will include two charges. One will be aflat rate for the cost of the electric grid, for example, building andmaintaining the industry’s infrastructure, such as power lines….
Riverside County’s Operation Rivco Shield will be holding a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Idyllwild on from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at Idyllwild School.Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations will be available. The Pfizer vaccine is offered for all individuals ages 12 and older. The Moderna vaccine is offered for all individuals…
A regional task force charged with stopping the spread of the Goldspotted oak borer across county lines and developing coordinated response plans is forming in Southern California …
Riverside County continues to monitor a possible underground fuel leak in Idyllwild. R.M. Environmental Inc. of Calimesa, conducting the monitoring work, just completed the third-quarter sampling report. In addition, RME has submitted a work plan to install two more monitoring wells that will be sampled and monitored on a quarterly basis for the next 12…