

Donation Alley brings in money for local charities
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Peter Buhl gives Clay Helgren of Living Free and Mary Lou Prosin of ARF checks totaling $402 from his Donation Alley at the Funky Bazaar in Fern Valley. Buhl has collected and donated in excess of $2,000 since he initiated the idea less than two years ago. Photo by J.P. Crumrine

On Wednesday night, Sept. 12, three chainsaws were taken from the trailer on the Idyllwild HELP Center property. The Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council’s Woodies contingent stores its equipment, which is used to cut and split firewood for the HELP Center’s clientele, in the trailer. This is second attack on the Woodies’ equipment. Earlier this…
One rollover crash, with an arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence, took place on Hill roads over the last week. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 19, Shawn Heutmaker, 30, of Escondido, was driving his white 2000 Toyota Tacoma truck eastbound on Highway 74, 2 miles east of the intersection with Highway 371 when…
Monitoring of underground leakage of petroleum products is continuing near and around the Chevron Station in Idyllwild. RM Environmental Inc. of Calimesa continues to monitor the site semi-annually for the presence of various hydrocarbons. The latest results, reported last month from samples taken in December, detected total petroleum hydrocarbons and methyl-tertiary-butyl ether on the site…
Vincent Daniel Gillman, 51, of Pine Cove, was arrested Thursday, June 14, by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on felony charges of suspicion of violation of Penal Code sections on embezzlement and second-degree burglary. Penal Code section 503 defines embezzlement as “the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted (sic),”…
Photo by Dr. Charles “Chip” Schelly California Highway Patrol and ambulance are responding to an overturned two-door vehicle near White Post Turn on Highway 74 toward Hemet. U.S. Forest Service is at the scene and reporting that the vehicle is blocking the road and the driver has minor lacerations.
Board wants to consider Stage 1 Emergency Addressing its water quality issue was not the only issue on the agenda for the Idyllwild Water District last week. (See the accompanying story on A1 about more solutions to water quality.) Water production for July was 10.2-million gallons, which was 660,000 gallons less than July 2017. For…