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Photos: Last Week in Idyllwild: September 24, 2015
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A fire that can be seen from these mountains is burning east of Julian. The Banner Fire started at 10:43 Thursday morning and is at about 100 acres. It is threatening the communities of Whispering Pines and Kentwood where 200 homes are being evacuated this afternoon. Highway 78 at Manzanita Drive and Manzanita Drive at Lakeview Drive…
The FY 2021/22 draft budget was discussed at the last Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Board of Commissioners meeting. The board also voted to approve the final annual financial report/audit at the April meeting.Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company is still recruiting.The total budgeted revenue is $2,598,002.11. The total budgeted expenditures are $2,590,500. Some of the larger…
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department officers executed a search, pursuant to a warrant, on the Bonita Vista Ranch in Garner Valley Sunday morning, Oct. 15. The 117-acre ranch is the property of Dia Abrams, who has been missing since June 6, 2020. It was also the scene of the death of Jodi Newkirk in December 2021,…
By Marsha KennedyContributed Over the New Years’ weekend, Idyllwild was struck by an unprecedented avalanche of snow-play visitors — more than the Hill has ever seen, in the estimate of many residents. In addition to the illegal parking, trespassing and littering, which unfortunately have become standard features of such events, traffic congestion was staggering. One…
Our Hill currently is experience a good deal of smoke drifting south from the San Gorgonio Wilderness in the greater Big Bear area on the “other mountain.” There currently is no fire in the San Jacinto mountains.
Marijuana plants were eradicated from three separate growing operations near Lake Hemet this morning in a joint effort between the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Forest Service. Riverside County Sheriff Sergeant Joe Pemberton estimated between 12,000 to 15,000 plants were removed, a street value of $36 million to…