The airbags deployed after this Chevrolet Avalanche crashed into a tree Monday evening while traveling on Saunders Meadow near Marian View Dr. No one was injured in the solo traffic collision. With extensive front-end damage, the vehicle had to be towed to the Idyllwild Garage.

By JP Crumrine Correspondent Warning Coordination Meteorologist Alex Tardy at the San Diego office of the National Weather Service (NWS) was in Idyllwild last week. As Mike Feyder, Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) president, said Tardy is a friend of MDP and has spoken in Idyllwild several times beginning in 2015 and last appearing here a…

Riverside County Supervisors were a little disappointed with the resultspresented in the six-month report on the implementation of revisedOrdinance 927.2, “Regulating Short-Term Rentals”. “We got a six-month report on how the Ordinance is working, and it seemsat this point, it’s not! At least to the degree that when the Boardapproved the Ordinance’s amendment and asked…

Three water districts have board member seats up for election in November: Idyllwild Water District (all five seats), Lake Hemet Municipal Water District (Divisions 2 and 5) and Pine Cove Water District (three seats). LHMWD’s division 5 includes east Hemet and Garner Valley/Pine Meadows Estates.  In addition, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District has two seats…