
Photo by Jenny Kirchner
What was that helicopter up to?
By Idyllwild Town Crier
You may have noticed an unnamed black and gold helicopter flying for 30 to 45 minutes over Idyllwild last Friday afternoon. The helicopter is leased by WaveRider Helicopters of Oceanside from November Alpha LLC. Kurt Dawson, owner/pilot of WaveRider, said his company was contracted by a surveyor to survey the power grid in our area. “The surveyor was probably hired by SCE,” he said, and Dawson and an employee were given a map to survey problems in the grid such things as trees in the power lines.

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…
The Idyllwild Water District (IWD) has scheduled a special meeting for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10. The closed session board meeting is an employee performance evaluation of Chief Financial Officer Hosny Shouman. The next regular IWD board meeting will be at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17. Board meetings are held in the IWD…
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Thunder bellowed for hours and the lightning resembled the strobe lights at a discotheque early Tuesday.
Vista Grande Hotshot Brent Witham, who was killed Aug. 2, while working on the Lolo Peak Fire in Montana, is coming home Monday, Aug. 7. Witham will be escorted home from Montana to his family, arriving at the San Bernardino air tanker base about 3:00 p.m. He will be escorted the entire way by Forest…