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Idyllwild Elementary School students produced the highest Annual Performance Index 2013 growth scores of the 14 elementary schools in the Hemet Unified School District. Idyllwild School had an API of 908. The API is an index that captures the results of language and math achievement tests for the individual grades into one value for the whole school or district. Thursday morning school students gathered to create a large “908” to celebrate their achievement. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Idyllwild’s Summer Concert Series continues Thursday, July 21, with headliner Frank DiSalvo’s Swing City II. The Toasted Clovers will get the music started at 6:15 p.m. DiSalvo has been a regular at these series, and this year, Swing City will bring a tribute to Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, and Blood Sweat and Tears. DiSalvo…
Vocalist Mary Stallings, considered by many one of the great jazz singers, has also been called one of the best-kept secrets in vocal jazz …
U.S. Forest Service firefighters are on scene of a small 5-foot-by-5-foot vegetation fire in the Alvin Meadows area behind Idyllwild Arts. The location is on Forest Service land. The fire possibly was caused by lightning. At this time, it is actively raining in the area. Non-Forest Service firefighters were dispatched, then held in place and…
Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a search of a home in the 26800 block of Highway 243, near Idyllwild School. Two marked RCSD black and white patrol cars and 3 unmarked cars, and a total of 7 law enforcement personnel, arrived to conduct the search just sometime before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28. Hemet…
Martin Prevosto and Sasha Fisher were both working on Monday, July 15, when the disastrous Mountain Fire started in Mountain Center. Prevosto, a contractor and carpenter, was helping pour a foundation in Pine Cove and Fisher was at her job at Lady of the Lake in Idyllwild. Shortly before 2 p.m. a friend called Prevosto…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointed retired attorney Peter Szabadi to the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee at its Tuesday, April 11, board meeting. Szabadi, who also serves on the boards of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild and the Idyllwild Water District, said his interest in serving on the CSA 36 Advisory Committee…