Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Idyllwild Community Center at the Butterfield Commons on Strawberry Creek received its final approval from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. The board accepted and agreed with the Planning Commission’s unanimous December decision to approve the conditional use permit for the site. Local resident Sue Nash asked the board to return…

During its Jan. 28 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Commission unanimously authorized Fire Chief Patrick Reitz to hire an outside investigator to look into a personnel matter. When asked if the investigator would look into a departmental policy or specific issue, or how many individuals are involved, Reitz had no response. In making the request to…

Fire officials expressed their concerns last week about the limited hours at Riverside County’s Grinding Station and policies at the Idyllwild Transfer Station that might discourage abatement. Officials from CR&R of Stanton, who have assumed the waste management lease for the county’s Area 8, which includes Idyllwild, attended the Dec. 9 Mountain Area Safety Taskforce…