

Veterans help build outdoor cattery for ARF
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Veterans from the Boots to Books program at Pasadena City College work on the construction of an outdoor cattery at ARF Saturday morning, Sept. 15. This ws the veterans second visit to help ARF with its construction, outdoor cleanup, walking dogs and playing with kitties. ARF provided breakfast that morning and a barbecue that afternoon. Photo by Barbara Reese

Local author and herbalist Greg Tilford is starting a series of talks inIdyllwild. He will be speaking about edible and medicinal plants ofIdyllwild and signing copies of his book Edible and Medicinal Plants ofthe West, at Speakeasy Bookmarket on Sunday September 1, at 2 p.m.Tilford, the author of five books, will also have copies of…
After a year in which two natural disasters — fire and floods — have threatened the hill and disrupted living patterns, the Fourth of July and the evening of July 5 raised concerns of a third disaster, earthquakes. While Idyllwild only experienced the tremors from two distance quakes to the north, Ridgecrest — near the…
At the end of August, the California Supreme Court may have offered the Idyllwild Fire Protection District a solution to its recently failed tax measures. In a case involving a cannabis local initiative that would legalize and tax medical-marijuana dispensaries in the City of Upland, the Supreme Court issued a decision involving the right of…
In closed session, three members of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission discussed possible performance standards with Fire Chief Patrick Reitz. Commissioners Jerry Buchanan and Larry Donahoo were out of town. After the meeting, Commission President Jeannine Charles-Stigall reported the session would be continued in October so that Buchanan and Donahoo could participate in the…
Bill Lowman explained that building excellence in each of the academy’s arts discipline required spending more money. “If I bring in an oboe player to better the orchestra, I need to spend more to ensure that player’s growth and development for that instrument,” he explained. “We would not have become who we are if we had not lived beyond our means [in the early years].”
Rain drenched parts of the Hill this weekend, and while it was far from sufficient to eliminate the drought, it will help. The U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station recorded 1.2 inches of rain from about noon Saturday, Aug. 2 through early Monday morning. But George Tate, an unofficial weatherman in Pine Cove, recorded slightly…