Another power outage affecting the town business area and many residential neighborhoods is planned between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 16. Several smaller and limited outages have also occurred since the April outage, which affected much of the local area, including Pine Cove. One outage affected about 15 customers on Marion View Drive…

At its Oct. 22 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission voted Commissioner-elect Nancy Layton onto the board about six weeks earlier than her official arrival. In September, former Commissioner Pete Capparelli  resigned before his term expired in December. In the August mail-in election, Layton tied with Commission President Jeannine Charles-Stigall as the top vote…

In a busy first meeting of the year, Idyllwild Water District directors addressed familiar topics such as employee benefits, additional water service to the Idyllwild Arts campus and current water conservation status. As part of a continuing review to accommodate employee benefits and the district’s financial resources, the board set a cap on future employee…

Last week, middle-school and secondary-school students took time out of the classroom to express their support for gun legislation. The walkout was for 17 minutes, one for each of the student and faculty victims at the Parkland, Florida, shooting. The nationwide event did not pass by Idyllwild. Students at both the Idyllwild Arts Academy and…