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Cathy Tarr, founder of the Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation (FOF), let the newspaper know that future searches will be conducted for Roy Prifogle, Melissa Lane and David O’Sullivan, who was last seen at the Idyllwild Inn April 7, 2017 and was 25 years old when he went missing. The FOF website writes of O’Sullivan, “David [O’Sullivan] was…
The boulder, which has closed Highway 243 since Sunday night, is strongly resisting Caltran’s efforts to reduce it and remove it. The boulder has broken the special equipment Caltrans rented to break it up. The drill on the equipment 50,000-pound excavator equipped with a hydraulic breaker broke today. Calrans does not have an estimate of…
The Cranston Fire remains at 18,139 acres and 92 percent contained. The number of personnel on the fire has dropped down to 580. Highway 74 is closed from Hemet to Highway 74 at Lake View Drive (Lake Hemet Market) Highway 243 is closed from lower Saunders Meadow Road south to Highway 74. Residents, business…
In November 2014, California voters overwhelming approved Proposition 1, a bond measure to provide financing to increase water supply, provide clean, safe and reliable water, and restore habitat. The total amount authorized was $7.5 billion to be allocated among seven categories: water storage, watershed protection and restoration, groundwater sustainability, regional water management, water recycling and…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, May 13 to 19. Idyllwild • May 13 — Burglary, 8:16 a.m., Cougar Rd. Report taken. • May 13 — Public disturbance, 10:02 p.m., 26000 block of Hwy. 243. Handled by deputy. • May 14 — Check the…
Idyllwild resident Bobbi Crawford needed a kidney …