
Photo courtesy Annamarie Padula
The 2015 Mountain Community Patrol board
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The 2015 Mountain Community Patrol Board of Directors posed for this photo. The members (front row, from left) are Jon Engle, 2nd vice president; Judi Milin, secretary; and Annamarie Padula, treasurer. Back row, from left are John Edminston, president; Bob Rahman, vice president; and Mel Goldfarb and Brian Lodge, members at large.

Whatever the current financial situation of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District, the commission is confident there are sufficient funds to continue to cover its payroll through December when its first property tax receipt arrives. Commission President Jerry Buchanan established a committee composed of commissioners Rhonda Andrewson and Nancy Layton to prepare a strategic plan for…
The repair of Highway 243 north of Pine Cove will take time to complete. The major work will be restoration of the highway where it collapsed and severed, in two places. Below is the work to reconnect the highway at Bay Tree Springs. Access to the second highway collapse, north of this site is not…
Brian Michael Tracy, poet and founder of Idyllwild Storytellers, has a country album, “Drinking My Tomorrows,” set to release Feb. 14. Tracy wrote all the songs with the exception of “Drinking My Tomorrows” and “Last Lonely Train” where he collaborated with local and Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty member Don Reed. The album came together organically,…
Although there were only three items on the agenda for last week’s Idyllwild Water District meeting, the third, which was only informational, took nearly two hours to cover. On July 9, General Manager Jack Hoagland announced that the test results for byproducts from disinfecting the water with chlorine were exceeding the state and federal limits….
The Idyllwild Indivisibles met again Monday, March 6, this time at Buckhorn Camp. At this meeting, guests from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s and Rep. Dr. Raul Ruiz’s staffs spoke. Also speaking on how to build bridges between differing opinions were locals Dave Dillon and Mary Morse. Andy Colgan attended on behalf of Ruiz. While he did…