
Photo by Steven King
Pups learn snake safety
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This pup learned his lesson quickly and wants nothing to do with the live rattlesnake (foreground). The pup and owner were at Rattlesnake Aversion Training for Dogs, which Natural Solutions offered Saturday, June 9, at Idyllwild County Park.

Reba Coulter got a nice surprise when she found out she had been named Riverside County 4th District Woman of the Year. “I didn’t know such a thing existed, I was totally shocked.” Coulter explains that each of the five supervisors nominated a candidate, and she was Supervisor V. Manuel Perez’s choice. The awards are…
The Idyllwild HELP Center will be hosting the Farmers Market on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. until the construction at Town Hall is complete, weather permitting. The HELP Center is located at 26330 Highway 243.
Manned by representatives of the Hemet Unified School District Transportation Department, the Bus Pass Desk was a popular stop during Idyllwild School’s Back to School Night held Thursday, Sept. 8.
Preparation of a new San Jacinto Mountains Community Wildfire Protection Plan has begun. To prepare an update to the 2006 plan, the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council has received a $55,000 grant from the California Fire Safe Council, which received the funding from the U.S. Forest Service. Dave Kehrlein, ESRI of Redlands, presented the steps…
Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Idyllwild local Joshua Cody Benson, 21, on suspicion of committing felony assault. The attack took place around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23 near Mountain Top Liquor on Highway 243 when Benson assaulted another man. The individual assaulted received injuries sufficient to require hospitalization. Paramedics from Idyllwild Fire Protection District…
Editor’s note: In the June 2011 Grand Jury report, item no. 5 stated, “A Board Member has an arrangement as a paid on call firefighter, EMT, or pump operator for the Fire District. This is a conflict as this Board Member is the Fire Chief’s superior as stated in AR IFPD #107 and when working…