
Idyllwild Fire Engineer Jack Peckham helps one Idyllwild School student with reaching the ketchup for his hotdog during Friday’s Red Ribbon Week® barbecue.
Photo by Jenny Kirchner
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Idyllwild Fire Engineer Jack Peckham helps one Idyllwild School student with reaching the ketchup for his hotdog during Friday’s Red Ribbon Week® barbecue.
Photo by Jenny Kirchner
A body was found near the South Fork Trail at the mixing station on Highway 74 about 1 mile west of Mountain Center. The victim, an adult male, appeared to be a drifter or homeless person, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Duckett. No identification was found with or near the body. The cause…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Tuesday, July 22, through Monday, July 28. Idyllwild • July 22 — Four medical aids. • July 23 — Public service assistance. • July 24 — Medical aid. • July 25 — Three medical aids. • July 26 — Malfunctioning alarm system. •…
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake was felt in Idyllwild and other areas of the Hill about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14. The quake was centered in the Yucaipa area and bounded by Beaumont and Moreno Valley. The shake was felt as far west as Long Beach and the Los Angeles coastal communities, east to Indio, south to…
Businesses now, residential customers will shift in 2020 Microwave dinners will become more expensive beginning in October 2020. That is when Southern California Edison will begin shifting all its residential customers to time-of-use electric rates. And evening electricity will cost more than lunch time. Beginning next month, new time-of-use periods will be applied to business…
Winter is just beginning, yet fire agencies are still active and making announcements. The Forest Service has begun a series of prescribed burns throughout the San Bernardino National Forest. Many of these have been and will be in the San Jacinto Ranger District. For Idyllwild residents, the broadcast burn on the Pine Cove fuel break…
Idyllwild’s Dr. Richard Goldberg (front center) was recognized at the third-annual Public Health Community Champion Awards last week. Goldberg represented the 3rd Supervisorial District. The other awardees were (front row, from left) Robert Roy, Gabriel Maldonado, Aurora Wilson and Melanie Nieman. Also shown in the back row (from left) are Susan Harrington, director of the Department of Public Health; 5th District Supervisor Marion Ashley; 1st District Supervisor Kevin Jeffries; Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the county Public Health officer; 4th District Supervisor John Benoit; and 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington.