The attorney for Robert Pape, 28, requested to re-schedule his preliminary hearing to Wednesday, Sept. 7. This is the same date co-defendant Cristin Smith, 27, has his preliminary hearing scheduled. Both men have been arrested as suspects for the 2006 triple murder of Jon Hayward, Vicki Friedli, and Vicki’s daughter, Becky Friedli, in Pinyon Pines….

California Highway Patrol (CHP) Public Information Officer Matt Napier has spent time catching the newspaper up on the traffic collisions that have occurred since May 20. Last week, the newspaper reported collisions from May 20 to June 13. This report includes collisions from June 14 to July 2. However, a couple of collisions are still…

MDP hosts community meeting to discuss options Do you need or have a generator when a power outage occurs again on the Hill? The question does not ask if a power outage will occur, but when. Southern California Edison has already announced that its future policies will lean toward more frequently planned public-safety power shutoffs, independent…

Waiting to cut tree allows pest to spread to healthy trees Community protection and financial aid may be a conflict that is yielding the proverbial “unanticipated results,” opined Gregg Bratcher, Cal Fire’s division chief for forestry on the Hill. Although the number of oaks infested with the Goldspotted oak borer continues to increase on the…

As the fall sales season trifecta of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas begins, there are more business exits and vacancies in Idyllwild storefronts than new arrivals. And because several of the empty stores are in highly visible and prominent locations, the trend seems more apparent.   The flagship freestanding storefront in Village Center is vacant as…