At its March 26 meeting, the Local Review Board of the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District discussed the possibility of employing the state’s Mills Act to encourage and gain more property owner participation in the protection of historic resources in Idyllwild. The Mills Act provides property tax relief in exchange for an equivalent investment in the…

Travis Mason is the acting district ranger for the San Jacinto Ranger District (SJRD). He began his tour Jan. 3 and is the latest in a series of “acting district rangers” since Julie Hall left for the Inyo National Forest a year ago. Mason has spent much of his U.S. Forest Service career (more than…

Mile High Radio Club (MHRC) president Bill Tell shared a document (on page A3) “outlining several ongoing projects” the club “is actively engaged in.” “This document was started several years ago when we were asked to participate in the Community Wildfire Protection Plan revisions,” Tell wrote. “We have advanced several projects over the past several…

With the Idyllwild Fire Protection District standing up its emergency siren alert system last week, the newspaper contacted the county about the status of its siren alert system.“I reached out to our team for an update,” wrote Shane Reichardt, senior public information specialist for the county’s Emergency Management Department, in an email Monday morning. “We…