

Man slips, falls on icy path at Lake Fulmor
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Gary Fox of Cathedral City was with his Rottweiler and neighbor for an afternoon of fishing at Lake Fulmor Friday. Fox was walking down an icy path with his dog and slipped, suffering a laceration and a possible broken femur. Idyllwild Fire was summoned to transport him to Desert Regional Medical Center. Photos by Jenny Kirchner

The agenda for the September meeting of the Idylliwld Water DistrictBoard of Directors included the preliminary engineering report for theWastewater Treatment Plant project, prepared by Specialized UtilityServices Program Engineering (SUSP.) Last month the board members and GMBill Rojas expressed exasperation with SUSP’s delays in delivering thisdocument, which must be in hand before the applications for…
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