Last week, the State Department of Education released the results of the 2023-24 Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments for English and mathematics. Students at Idyllwild School performed better overall than the statewide results and the County and the Hemet Unified School District results. In English, overall, 55.6% of the Idyllwild School students (grades 3 through 8)…

A two-vehicle crash at 10:34 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, on Highway 74 at Thomas Mountain Village resulted in one fatality and three injuries, two of them moderate to serious. According to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer, Walter Risch, 73, of Mountain Center, was driving a white 2004 Ford 150 truck westbound on…

U.S. Forest Service participation at the Sept. 13, Mountain Area Safety Taskforce was nonexistent. Forest Service members, who normally attend the local session, were all on fire assignments outside the district and many outside the state, reported Cal Fire Forestry Division Chief Gregg Bratcher, who chaired the meeting. But those in attendance discussed threats to…