Motorcycle collision closes highway

Idyllwild FireThe Idyllwild Fire Protection District responded to these calls from Monday to Sunday, April 4 to 10. • April 4 — Public service assist, 1:40 a.m. Maranatha Dr.• April 4 — EMS call, provide advanced life support, 11:53 a.m. Hwy. 243.• April 4 — EMS call, provide ALS, 6:07 p.m. N. Circle Dr.• April…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Oct. 2 to Oct. 8. Idyllwild • Oct. 2 — Follow-up, address withheld. Handled by deputy. • Oct. 2 — Public disturbance, address undefined. Handled by deputy. • Oct. 2 — Danger to self/other, Encino Rd. Handled…
The estimated 90-foot tall Sequoia tree at Community Presbyterian Church on the northeast corner of North Circle Drive and Cedar Street came down Tuesday. The tree had been dying for quite some time, and Southern California Edison retained Pino Tree Service of Idyllwild to bring it down. According to Mike Zambrana of Pino, the base of…
60 years ago – 1956 Idyllwild School registered 90 youngsters in kindergarten to seventh grades. The prior week, 290 students attended the first day of the new school year. 55 years ago – 1961 Tahquitz Lake Estates announced the opening of a tract on the Dutch Flat property and near Foster Lake. Lots were priced…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors will consider a 45-day moratorium on issue new Short-term Rental (STR) Certificates in Idyllwild, Pine Cove, Mountain Center and the Temecula Valley Wine Country Policy Area. The moratorium specifically will not prohibit using existing approved STRs in these areas or renewing certificates for properties that already have an approved…
The modern celebration of Thanksgiving commemorates the first harvest festival of the Pilgrim colonists at Plymouth, Massachusetts, but that was one of many days of Thanksgiving observed by early European settlers, and only became the center of one of our foundation myths in the late 19th century. Days of Thanksgiving were decreed by the Spanish…