Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Idyllwild Community Center at the Butterfield Commons on Strawberry Creek received its final approval from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. The board accepted and agreed with the Planning Commission’s unanimous December decision to approve the conditional use permit for the site. Local resident Sue Nash asked the board to return…

Riverside County District Attorney (DA) Mike Hestrin, along with 24 other DAs throughout California, announced that Feb. 1, a judge in San Joaquin County ordered Tesla Inc. to pay $1.5 million as part of a settlement of a civil environmental prosecution alleging the electric car company mishandled hazardous waste at its car service centers, energy…

By Becky Clark Editor Dave Hunt, a regular participant in “So you think you know the Hill” was the first to answer, followed by two more correct answers. “Marion Mountain was named after Marion Kelly by Edmund Perkins Jr. who surveyed and mapped the San Jacinto Mountains in the 1890s. Marion was a teacher from…