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Thursday’s Idyllwild Community Fund reception preceded the announcement of the award winners. Here Gigi Kramer serves a table dinner and Summer Brown mans the beverage table. Photo by Barbara Reese

Wyatt Priefer at Beat Night at Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery Monday, Nov. 6. PHOTO BY PETER SZABADI
On Wednesday, Dec. 16, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission and its Finance Committee met in a rare joint session. The purpose was to discuss the role, responsibilities, goals and objectives of the committee, originally established as the Budget Committee in November 2013. A new resolution was passed in May 2015 and superseded the 2013…
The Board of Directors of Idyllwild Water District met on WednesdayAugust 21. The board heard that the initial engineering for theWastewater Treatment Plant replacement has been delayed until September,with GM Bill Rojas saying he is working on an alternative to the presentfirm. At a public hearing, the board voted to raise the stipend fordirectors from…
After about 18 months, the Riverside County Department of Public Health has released its Community Health Improvement Plan. The work began among professionals and interest groups within the county in 2009. Last year, in 2015, communities and citizens began to be polled about their needs and priorities through a series of community meetings, including one…
Idyllwild Water District General Manager Tom Lynch says an individual director has no right to request an item be placed on the agenda. This was in response to Director Steve Kunkle’s request to place the director’s compensation on the IWD agenda for last week. “A board member has no power to set the future agenda…
Update 10:54 a.m. Tuesday: All evacuation orders have been lifted. Update Tuesday morning: The Flats Fire is now 60% contained, according to Incident Command. Update 12:30 p.m. Monday: The Flats Fire’s rate of spread has been stopped, “but high heat, winds and rocky terrain will continue to present challenges for firefighters this week during a…