A small group of Idyllwild and Pine Cove residents attended a final county presentation prior to the official launch of the Idyllwild Downtown Historic District. County representatives held the Wednesday, May 16, meeting to show the community final draft design guidelines for the district, explain how the permitting process for alterations works, and how the…

The underground storage tank cleanup site at the Pine Cove Market was to have been closed by now. In late October, the county Department of Environmental Health was to issue a notice requesting comments on its plan to close the case. Unfortunately, the announcement was never posted properly and the process had to be restarted….

Hemet Unified School District directors adopted a $200 million budget last week that will produce a $16.7-million deficit for fiscal 2014-15, which begins July 1. The current-year budget also has a projected $5.2-million deficit. By fiscal year 2015-16, HUSD believes the two years of losses will be reversed. Next year’s $203.4-million budget is nearly $27.6…

Lucky, a 7-year-old Yorkshire terrier, had very bad luck. He was a pawn caught in an emotional triangle involving great distance, his female owner in Utah, her new truck-driver boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s wife and family in California. But then a team from the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild changed the little Yorkie’s bad luck…