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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…
There is now a second petition on Change.org intending to make Highway 74 safer from Palm Desert to 371. The first petition sought action from Caltrans to repair the many potholes in the asphalt. The new one seeks to limit the use of 74 by heavy trucks, enforce the prohibition with a weigh station. The…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, July 3 to 9. Idyllwild • July 3 — Water or steam leak, Crestview Dr. • July 3 — Walk-in medical aid. • July 4 — Two medical aids, N. Circle Dr. • July 4 — Medical aid, Ridgeview Dr. •…
Riverside County Sheriff’s Investigator Sgt. Robert Duckett, Hemet Station, reported early Tuesday that a gray 2015 Ford F-150 truck belonging to local residient Shane Stewart has been located, along with several other stolen vehicles, in Anza. Investigators were on the scene as this was being written. The theft was reported on Tuesday, Dec. 8, but…
This week, Cal Fire, in cooperation with California State Parks, will be conducting prescribed burns of brush and slash piles in the Mt. San Jacinto State Park from Tuesday, March 29, through Thursday, March 31. On Tuesday, the burn took place in the area of Thousand Trails Park in Pine Cove. On Wednesday and Thursday,…
Editor’s note: Because of pressing issues regarding the local weather disasters, we are unable to investigate further this week on this issue, as some readers and also attendees requested at last week’s news meeting. Following publication of the Idyllwild Fire Department wages, as reported to the state Controller General, who posts it on the agency’s…