
Photo by John Pacheco


Photos by J.P. Crumrine
Planned outage hit Friday
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Fairway Market closed its doors during the planned power outage on Friday. Manager Diana Johnson, pictured, worked through the outage. Idyllwild went without power for several hours. Several businesses, including Idyllwild Chevron, stayed open, powering their stores with back-up generators. Photo by John Pacheco



At about 11:20 a.m. Monday, Nov. 12, U.S. Forest Service firefighters responded to a small vegetation wildfire off of Highway 74 near the old turkey ranch south of the highway, heading toward Hemet. The Turkey incident, a small spot fire, was quickly extinguished. No cause was given. U.S. Forest Service firefighters also responded to a…
Past remediation efforts at the site of a previously leaking underground fuel tank in Idyllwild seem to have successfully removed most of the potential contaminants, according to a recent report filed with the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health. In early October, R.M. Environmental, Inc., the consultants for property owner Sanden & Sons, Inc., of…
All evacuations have been lifted for the Ribbon Fire in the Pinyon Pines/Ribbonwood area after a wildfire broke out sometime after 11 a.m. Thursday. The fire is 200 acres and 60 percent contained as of about 8 a.m. Saturday. Mandatory evacuations are still in place for the Cranston Fire burning around Idyllwild and Mountain Center.
Late Saturday night, a fuse blew in a Southern California Edison transformer on the Hill. Nearly 370 customers were without power starting about 10:15 p.m. Power was returned to Hill residents over the next 75 minutes. By 11:30 p.m., power was restored to all customers within the affected area, according to an Edison press office….
In anticipation of the traditional Governor’s May Revision of the coming budget, the California Senate offered its views on the Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget. Their proposal is called the Foundation for the Future and stresses making “responsible choices.” The Plan the Senate put forth is intended to concentrate on three key priorities, which are responsible…...
Don Lenik was remembered with stories, poems and an impromptu song on Sunday afternoon at the Community Center site. Francoise Frigola, Gabriella Dapeer, Judith Schonebaum and Trudy Levy organized the memorial. The traditional Jewish Kaddish Yatom (The Mourner’s Kaddish) was recited at the end of the gathering.