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Cal Fire/Riverside County and Idyllwild Fire departments personnel responded to a report of an injured hiker at Humber Park at 11:37 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28. The incident occurred on the Ernie Maxwell Trail. The patient was a 20-year-old male hiking with his family on the icy trail when he lost his footing, according to Cal…
Marcos Souza Melo (nickname “Spider”) has been doing Brazilian Capoeira (a martial art) for 24 years and has recently begun adult and kid classes at Town Hall …
The Idyllwild Post Office will be temporarily closed for repairs. The anticipated shut down is expected to run from Aug. 19 to Aug. 27. During this time, the P.O. Box mail will be available for pick up at the back door of the post office from 6 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 6…
The Local Control and Accountability Plan was the subject of a lively discussion at Idyllwild School last week. The LCAP is a product of 2013 legislation that changed the method in which the state allocates educational funds. Hemet Unified School District is preparing its third LCAP and has been holding meetings throughout the district to…
Kacee Lloyd Monroe, 34, who was convicted in 2004 for the Nov. 19, 2001, second-degree murder of his friend Austin Ross, both 16, and both Pine Cove residents, has been denied parole by Gov. Gavin Newsom. On Oct. 2, 2018, a two-commission parole board recommended parole for Monroe, serving time in the Avenal State Prison…
Last week, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s request for an advance of its December property tax revenue. The district submitted the request for $400,000 in June and the board unanimously approved it. This is the third consecutive year IFPD has needed to obtain an advance to help it…