
Photos by Leslie Schelly

Boy Scouts do good deed
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On Saturday, March 21, several fellow Boy Scouts and adults participated in Chad Schelly’s project helping Town Hall. From left are Jeff Bradshaw, Ana Bradshaw, Aislynn and Rosemary Bradshaw, Chip Schelly, Aidan Young, Chad Schelly, Matt Huff, Elder Franson, Elder Pennell, Mitchell Romeril, Tristan Wettlauffer, Christian Huff and Jonah Bradshaw.


Carbon plant doing its job The July water samples from Fern Valley Water District’s granulated activated carbon (GAC) plant yielded unexpected and strange results, General Manager Victor Jimenez told the directors at the Aug. 23 board meeting. “There must have been a bottle mix up at the lab,” he began. The GAC filters remove the…
The Idyllwild grinding facility will be closed Saturdays from Dec. 5 through May 1. Monday-through-Friday operations will continue with normal operating hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed noon to 1 p.m. for lunch). The facility will resume Saturday operations May 7. The facility is one mile south of the Idyllwild Transfer Station…
‘The [ambulance] service provider didn’t want to honor the additional year at the current price,” Bill Brown told the CSA 38 Advisory Committee last week …
As of 6:11 p.m., Pine Cove and Cedar Glen area residents still reported outages. Edison is investigating the cause of the power outages, as well as re-evaluating the restoration ETA. About 1,629 customers are impacted at this time. At 5:25 p.m., some people in Idyllwild (particularly Pine Crest Avenue, Cedar Glen, top of Franklin…
Shannon Houlihan Ng brings impressive credentials to her new position as head librarian for the Idyllwild Library. She has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from UCLA, an undergraduate degree in English (Cal State San Bernardino), with additional postgraduate studies in English, a secondary teaching credential in English and a librarian services…
At its April 2 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a grant of $1,500 to the Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks from 3rd District Supervisor Jeff Stone’s community improvement funds. Nature Center Park Interpreter Shelley Kibby said the grant would be used for both streambed restoration along Lily Creek in…