Families waited anxiously for the Mountain Community Patrol annual pancake breakfast at Town Hall on Sunday morning.

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day because of the tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, is a day of remembrance for American men and women who died while serving in American wars. The tradition began after the Civil War as a way to honor Union and Confederate war dead. The Civil War,…

Jennifer Gee, director of the University of California’s James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, has been a birder since the age of 9. So it is not surprising that she would conduct her fieldwork with birds, specifically quail hybrids. She will talk about that work as part of the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s popular speaker series…