

Angel Tree up at BBVA
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The HELP Center’s Angel Tree is now up at BBVA Compass Bank. Colleen Meyer (left), client services administrator for the Idyllwild HELP Center, put up the Angel Tree with help from her children Brynnley, Caden (being held) and Peyton Manchee. Bank Manager Jeri Sue Haney was on hand for support. The Angel Tree has gift tags listing children’s wishes for Christmas. Pick a tag, purchase the gift, then drop it off at the HELP Center.

As of April 1, the planned search for Roy Prifogle has been changed from Saturday, April 17 to Sunday, April 18. Prifogle’s daughter Kendra Johnson posted the change on her Facebook account April 1, asking for people’s help in the search effort. “The detective in charge told me that anyone can go out and search…
Caltrans and its contractor, PTM General Engineering Services, Inc. of Riverside, Calif. will begin work to install a traffic signal and lighting at the intersection of State Route 74 and Gilbert Street in Hemet this week. The work will take place from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7 and…
A 3.2 magnitude earthquake occurred Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. The tremor was centered 18 miles south/southeast of Valle Vista, and 5 or 6 miles northeast of the intersection of highways 79 and 371, east of Temecula. About an hour earlier, a 2.2 magnitude tremor occurred about 2 miles further southeast. Thursday morning, another 2.2 tremor…
The next Mountain Emergency Service Committee meeting will be 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 11. The Director of the County’s Emergency Management Department, Kimberly Saruwatari, will be the speaker. In the Spring of 2015, the Board of Supervisors created the EMD from two Public Health agencies — the Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch and the Emergency…
The Idyllwild Water District (IWD) Board of Directors February meeting was the district’s second attempt to hold its meeting via Zoom. The district, after a failed first attempt in January, was able to successfully hold a February meeting via Zoom. All five directors were present. Public hearing set for May The board voted to “set…
Nobody submitted a correct answer last week so the contest carries over to this week with a new photo of the same site that includes more clues, and we add the following verbal clue: “Central corner.” You are challenged to identify the particular spot depicted in this Hill photograph (shown below). It might be the…