The multi-year project to replace the Hurkey Creek Bridge on Highway 74 in Garner Valley is nearing completion. Caltrans estimates the new bridge will reopen to two-lane traffic in mid to late April, said Joy Schneider, Caltrans public information officer. Planning to replace the 1930s-era bridge, the narrowest point on Highway 74, began in 2012….

The Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council conducted fuel abatement in Twin Pines last week. Pino Tree Service did the clearing, including removal of large piles of brush, on the steep mountain side below the dome house foundation. This was the site deaths of the Forest Service firefighters during the Esperanza Fire in 2006.

The first weekend of 2019 was wet with rain drenching the whole Hill and some areas receiving a covering of snow.  The National Weather Service’s forecast for this storm expected most of the snow to fall in the San Bernardino Mountains. However, it was the San Jacinto Mountains that received the snow, but almost all…

Funds allocated for 22nd-annual Art Walk and Wine Tasting Art Alliance of Idyllwild will receive $1,000 from Riverside County Third District Supervisor Chuck Washington for its annual Art Walk and Wine Tasting event in October. In his recommendation to his colleagues, Washington wrote, “The funding will be utilized to support the 22nd-annual Art Walk to…