California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Matt Napier reported three traffic collisions last week, two involving snow.At 5:15 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, Miriam Andrews, 65, of Idyllwild, was driving a silver 1998 Mercedes E320 eastbound from a private driveway and parking lot at an unknown speed when, for unknown reasons, she accelerated across Village Center…

Chains, traction devices or snow tires are required on the drive axle of all vehicles except four wheel/ all wheel drive vehicles between Lake Fulmor and Idyllwild along Highway 243 today.

Idyllwild Fire Chief Norm Walker expects to leave the local fire department by end of the year. “All I know is that [the commission] wants to go in a different direction,” Walker said Tuesday night. “I don’t know what that is. They want somebody who can take them somewhere else.” The Fire District Commission has…