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Kilingaman the collegiate
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Idyllwild’s Emma Klingaman finished eighth in the Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals cross-country meet

Welcome Kayanna Warren to the Hill. She is the new forester for the San Jacinto Ranger District. Warren is a 2013 graduate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has been an ecology and biology geek since grade school, she said proudly. “We [she and her parents] lived 25 miles from Portland…
At last week’s meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission rejected all four recommendations in a recent Riverside County Grand Jury report. The first recommendation was to share Administrative Capt. Mark Lamont’s duties in order to reduce the cost of paid overtime, which exceeded $50,000 in 2012. Fire Chief Patrick Reitz drafted the proposed response,…
Firefighters responded to a wildland fire Friday at 1:16 a.m. at the 28000 block of Bonita Vista Drive in Apple Canyon (between Mountain Center and Garner Valley). The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) took over the incident, which had been under the command of Cal Fire/Riverside County…
After several months of discussion, the directors of the Idyllwild Water District approved an ordinance for mandatory recycled water use. The new ordinance mandates the use of recycled water “for the following purposes: agricultural irrigation, construction use, landscape irrigation, landscape and or recreation impoundments and wildlife habitat.” The board also declared the use of…
Free county pick up Sept. 30 The Household Hazardous Waste Disposal returns to Idyllwild from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. The location is the County Road Facility at 25780 Johnson Road, just past the Idyllwild Fire Station. On that day, local residents may bring a plethora of potentially hazardous materials to the…
Halloween decorations are going up all around us; jack o’lanterns, skeletons and other spooky figures provide delightfully macabre touches to our neighborhoods, but one increasingly common decoration has been targeted as dangerous to wildlife: artificial spiderwebs. The most common material is a type of polyester, similar to fiberglass or cotton in appearance, and social media…