

Weekend fire scare on Thomas Mountain
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Cal Fire Helicopter 301 drops water on a small lightning fire on Thomas Mountain late Sunday afternoon. Responding units from the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire contained the 10-foot by 10-foot fire.

Marshall Hawkins, popular and renowned in Idyllwild as jazz bass musician, teacher and human being, received an honorary doctor of music performance degree Friday night from California Baptist University (CBU) in Riverside where, with Director of Jazz Studies and professor Dan St. Marseille, he co-led the CBU Jazz Ensemble together with Hawkin’s own Seahawk Modern…
Shaelynn O’Brien of Mountain Center received a car from Farmers Insurance recently. She was one of four veterans and active-duty service members honored Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the Farmers headquarters in Woodland Hills. Farmers teamed up with Caliber Collision to restore the vehicles and provide reliable transportation to the recipients and their families as part…
At about 2 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, three masked and as-yet-unidentified persons broke into the Idyllwild Garage lot and stole a vehicle. They broke into the lot by cutting the lock on the gate. Surveillance video showed the individuals checking cars in the lot before selecting a 2006 silver Ford Escape with California plates. Keys…
On May 19, the plaintiffs challenging Riverside County’s supervisorial maps submitted a request to the Superior Court to prohibit using the maps approved in December 2021 depicting the five county supervisor districts. These supervisorial districts were used for the 2022 elections. In the 2024 elections, voters will be selecting supervisors for the 1st, 2nd, and…
Two crashes, both on Sunday, Dec. 4, took place on Hill roads over the last week. At 11:27 a.m., Christopher Wrenn, 24, of Aguanga, was riding his black 2014 Honda street bike east on Highway 371, a half mile west of the intersection with Highway 74 when, while negotiating a left-hand curve, he crossed over…
Budget surplus expected The Fern Valley Water District easily approved the location of a new disaster assistance station in the upper Fern Valley neighborhood last Friday. Mike Feyder, president of Idyllwild’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness group, and Thom Wallace, director, approached the FVWD board in July 2017 about their interest in adding another DAS in…