
Jo O’Brien, who set up the Garner Valley Craft Faire for Saturday, with AJ the llama, are happy with the turnout and that no rain had fallen. PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Jo O’Brien, who set up the Garner Valley Craft Faire for Saturday, with AJ the llama, are happy with the turnout and that no rain had fallen. PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District is soliciting community members to join its Finance Committee. Fire Chief Patrick Reitz says interested citizens will be considered at the fire commission’s Jan. 14 meeting. An application and the resolution establishing the committee’s function and compostion can be found at the district’s website, http://idyllwildfire.com. The application asks for name,…
As a result of the 2010 political redistricting, Idyllwild and other Hill communities technically had no representation in the California Senate. But our former senator Bill Emmerson will continue to represent these areas until the November 2014 election. The state Senate has 40 members and every two years, half of the districts vote for their…
The consequences of last week’s Appellate Court decision to uphold the lower court decision rejecting San Juan Capistrano’s tiered water rates because the method of deriving the costs was inconsistent with Proposition 218 are still ricocheting around the state. Locally, the effect of the decision has not been felt. General managers for Fern Valley and…
Financial issues — past and future — dominated the discussion during last week’s Pine Cove Water District board meeting. General Manager Jerry Holldber reported on the costs of the recently completed South Central Pipeline Project, which is in the Nestwa Trail neighborhood. Work took 40 days from late August until early November. District staff replaced…
At 6:18 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, a silver 2003 Honda Civic, driven by Jillian Sipes 33, of La Quinta, was traveling east on Highway 74 when Sipes made an unsafe turning movement and collided with the mountainside just west of the Santa Rosa Truck Trail. She was transport by American Medical Response to Desert Regional…
The Idyllwild Water District (IWD) board began a process that may take many meetings to ultimately resolve. General Manager Terry Lyons reported that Idyllwild Arts staff has approached IWD for a “will serve” letters in anticipation of new construction at the school beginning this fall. IWD can provide sufficient water for a new health center,…