Idyllwild School open house this week
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Mrs. Salter’s (back right) third-grade classroom is full of color for Wednesday’s open house at Idyllwild School. Photo by Barbara Reese
No weather forecaster predicted an El Niño or even a rainy winter, yet so far, the 2016-17 season has been surprisingly, and gratifyingly, wet. For the second-consecutive holiday weekend, rain and snow fell on the Hill. While the amounts were not as massive as the Christmas weekend, New Year’s weekend supplied more than an inch…
After a break in a water line several weeks ago, Idyllwild Pines administration shut off water to the Idyllwild Dog Park, situated on the Idyllwild Pines campus. “I feel bad the water has been off for two weeks,’ said Kelly Schlenz, camp operations director. “Unfortunately where the line broke makes it a difficult repair. We…
A total of five cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the Idyllwild-Pine Cove area, according to the Riverside University Health System (RUHS) website. The first reported case for the area was on April 3. Riverside County gave the following response when asked how many of the five people infected with COVID-19 have recovered: “The…
Pine Cove resident Maureen “Mo” Mullins retired last year, but has certainly not slowed down. In October she joined a group that reached the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. At 71, she credits her high-altitude home, and the training she did here, for…
The U.S. Forest Service is reporting a 1/4-acre fire along the Webster Trail, about 150 yards west of Red Hill Truck Trail, not far from Acorn Lane in the southwest corner of Pine Cove. USFS transmissions indicate there is an unoccupied vehicle at the fire location, and law enforcement units have been requested. The vehicle,…
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Central Homicide Unit arrested Anza resident Mark William Winder, 21, on Feb. 29 for the Feb. 7 murder of Trevor Michael Slusher, 20, also of Anza. Slusher was found on Feb. 7 badly wounded near the intersection of Gassner Road and Roger Lane, in Anza. Although responding CAL FIRE personnel…