

Idyllwild Heating donates furnace, labor for warming center
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The Oct. 3 general membership meeting of American Legion Post 800 was briefly interrupted when Steve Holldber (left), owner of Idyllwild Heating, told the legionnaires that he was donating the furnace, which his crew installed. The Legion Hall is designated a County of Riverside Warming Center. Receiving the good news (from left) are Dave Fraser, adjutant; Ron Draper, commander; and Danny Richardson, House Committee chairman. Post 800 has more than 400 members. Photo by Cid Castillo

At 4:08 p.m. Tuesday, U.S. Forest Service firefighters were dispatched to a vegetation fire off of Highway 74 in the Santa Rosa area. The fire’s size was 10-feet-by-10-feet. Two engines were kept on scene to handle the spot and all other resources were canceled. Forest Service crews also responded to a small vegetation fire at…
Cranston Fire Wednesday, July 25, the third of four consecutive days of heat warnings, started with blue skies, hardly any clouds, but hot. No one but one man, an arsonist, had any idea how hot that day and days that followed would get. The Cranston Fire began that morning. At 11:45 a.m., 911 (emergency dispatch)…
The Idyllwild School cafeteria became a veritable library as a Book Fair was held Oct. 10-14 to benefit the school’s PTA.
Cal Fire/Riverside County Here are some of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County responded to recently. • April 24 — Medical aid, 12:19 p.m. Wrightwood Drive & Acorn Ln. • April 26 — Medical aid, 5:04 p.m. Hwy. 243 near Hwy. 74. Semi tipped over. • April 30 — Medical aid, 8:23 a.m. Humber Park. Idyllwild…
At its May 23 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission approved an increase in its ambulance service fees. The cost to district residents for its ambulance service, beginning June 1, is now $1,548.75. The 2017-18 cost for each service, for residents and non-residents, was increased 5 percent. An ambulance trip to a local hospital…
Late Friday, Nov. 9, after a nearly 12-hour meeting, the California Air Resources Board approved changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. While the vote was 12-2, this was a controversial decision, especially in the wake of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call of a Special Legislative Session to address increasing gasoline prices in the State. The…