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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

“You have to bring your own water up there,” said Charles Phelan. “It is a valuable service that towers are still staffed. I know we have caught stuff that could have gotten out of control had we not spotted it.” Phelan has been a volunteer at the Tahquitz Peak Fire Lookout for six years. He…
On Thursday evening, a sign asking for the resignation of Idyllwild Water District directors Jim Billman, John Cook and Michael Freitas appeared on the property across Highway 243 from Butterfield Commons on Strawberry Creek, future home of the Idyllwild Community Center.
Current and future financial issues were the main topics of last week’s County Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee meeting. Among the topics discussed were the future of the parcel fee now that CSA 38 residents do not have to fund the ambulance contract with the Idyllwild Fire Protection District, the current boundary of…
After a two-year absence, Michelle Adler returns to Idyllwild School as kindergarten teacher and she’s very happy to be back. A Wisconsin native, who, along with new Athletic Director Darren McKay, is a big sports fan and participant, Adler was furloughed for a year after her first stint at Idyllwild School. Then she taught…
Sunday morning, Aug. 31, an injured hiker was rescued near Lunch Rock on Tahquitz Rock. The adult female injured her hip in a fall. Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire Department helicopter 301 hoisted the hiker out of the park and flew her to Keenwild helibase. From there, Idyllwild Fire Department transported her to a…
Just after noon Tuesday, April 9, Cal Fire and U.S. Forest Service and firefighters and aircraft responded to a report of a vegetation fire near Ribbonwood and Sky View Drives in the Piñyon area. A motor home caught fire and ignited the surrounding vegetation. By 1 p.m., the fire was estimated to be…