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Firefighter and EMT Adam Rodriguez helps Kade McGovern, 5, suit up for a small obstacle course involving a hose drag and putting out a “fire” made of orange cones. Photo by Jenny Kirchner





According to the California Highway Patrol, at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, a red Ford F150 truck and Subaru Forester collided head-on at Highway 243 and North Circle Drive. After the cars collided, the Ford truck rolled down the highway and collided with a tree in front of the Village Market. According to witnesses,…
Editor’s note: A separate story discusses the Assembly District races and the Idyllwild Water District Board election. The polls have been closed for two weeks. Most final results are known, but about 46,900 ballots remain to be counted in Riverside County as of 6 pm, Saturday, Nov.16. About 1,100 ballots were counted since Friday. As…
Two injury crashes occurred on Hill roads during the last week. The first, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, occurred on Highway 74 one mile west of Strawberry Creek Bridge. At 6:15 p.m. Alec Blume, 17, from San Jacinto, was driving his 2003 black Toyota Celica east on Highway 74 when he made an unsafe turning move…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors has approved some major changes to its Ordinance 927.2, “Regulating Short Term Rentals” (STRs). Some of those changes include caps or limits on the number of STRs in Idyllwild (and Pine Cove) and the Wine Country. Also, there will be a minimum distance required between future new STRs. The…
Ron Pasch, the face of the Idyllwild Transfer Station, was seriously injured in a head-on collision on Highway 74 as he began his drive to work from his home in Valle Vista on the morning of Monday January 5, according to Katie Anderson, an friend and Idyllwild resident who has started a GoFundMe for him….
About 20 people took time from the busy Labor Day weekend to attend a not-widely announced public session with Capt. Leonard Purvis of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Hemet Station, who came to Idyllwild Saturday morning, Sept. 2, to discuss the local crime conditions. He first visited with the Pine Cove Property Owners Association and…