Idyllwild local Stacey Grant avoided a head-on collision with a motorcyclist on Sunday, Dec. 6. Grant was driving her 2011 silver Subaru Outback west on Highway 74 around 11:00 a.m. just after the last turnout near the bottom of the Hill on the Hemet side. Grant noted she had slowed as cars ahead of her…

The Idyllwild Association of Realtors held their 35th anniversary installation dinner on Thursday evening, Nov 8, at the Rainbow Inn. During the evening, Pete Capparelli (right) swears in the Association’s new board. Incoming officers and directors are (from left) Chris Davis (director), Joe McNabb (director), Kay Jennison (director), Karen Doshier (treasurer), Bill Sperling (director), Sheila Zacker (vice-president) and Trischa Clark (president).

Idyllwild Postmaster Mark Smith has resigned after holding the position for about four months. According to remaining Idyllwild post office staff, Smith left a resignation note on a back-room table at the end of a shift early last week and has not returned. Employees Christine Reitz and Kelsi Lehman did their best to staff the…

Norm Kyriss, of Hemet, volunteered his time to offer a petition to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom Sunday on Highway 243 near the Idyllwild Shell station. Kyriss read sections of the petition out loud: “Over a decade of proven mismanagement of policies, public monies, resources, lack of leadership, poor schools, crumbling infrastructure, outrageous rise of cost…