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LEAGUE SHOWS SUPPORT: Coaches, parents and players in the Town Hall Youth Soccer League stand with American Legion Post 800 members to show their support all season with a display of special “camo” jerseys. Photo by John Drake

Hundreds of earthquakes — from very small (magnitude less than 1) to minor (magnitude 4.0 to 5.0) occurred near the Salton Sea last week. Again demonstrating his prescience for disaster, Mike Feyder, head of the local Mountain Disaster Preparedness group, had already scheduled a community meeting to hear a speaker from the California Institute of…
IFPD requests property tax advance Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) was on the Aug. 27 Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda for property tax advancement and a new dispatch contract. The board approved the advance property tax payment of $400,000 to IFPD. This will help the district’s cash flow until winter. From July through…
Candidates for local special districts could begin filing papers for candidacy this week. The first official day was Monday, May 4, for the Aug. 25 elections involving Fern Valley, Idyllwild and Pine Cove water districts, and Idyllwild Fire Protection District. The terms of three members of the IWD board expire this year. The other…
Living Free, founded in 1980, is a sanctuary for abandoned cats and dogs. Currently it is home to nearly 100 cats and 45 to 50 dogs. Mustangs are another species, surprisingly, who are abandoned or whom humans find too numerous. The federal government rounds up wild mustangs annually and keeps them penned in corrals with…
Over the weekend Everitt’s Minerals moved their business across N. Circle Drive to share space with the Quiet Creek Living Room Gallery …
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District Board of Commissioners has canceled a special meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at the station’s board room for lack of a quorum. The special board meeting would have a closed session regarding pending litigation with the district’s attorney.