A capacity crowd seeking answers on the county’s assumption of recreation management in Idyllwild confronted the County Service Area (CSA) 36 Advisory Committee at its Thursday, July 14 meeting. The packed meeting produced little satisfaction for attendees, whose frustration grew because county representatives were absent. On July 9, Bill Brown, CSA operations manager, had emailed…

Stephanie YostIdyllwild Community Center The Idyllwild Community Center is welcoming one and all to an all-community Open House for the restored and renovated Town Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 31. Residents and visitors will be able to go on a self-guided tour of Town Hall and receive information about the renovation…

Idyllwild resident Cathie Davis has called this mountain her home for 36 years. Growing up in Orange County, Davis knew she wanted to be a nurse and had plenty of options on where she could pursue that goal. “When I was nine years old, I told my mom I was going to be a nurse,”…

The restoration of the Hill’s mountain yellow-legged frog population is continuing although no new releases of eggs are planned for 2012, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine. “It looks like our captive breeding program this year did not produce as many new frogs as…

Dr. Dick Goldberg, medical director of Mountain Disaster Preparedness, has long sought to establish a support and training relationship with the American Red Cross — a relationship that acknowledges the Hill would likely be cut off for an extended period if a major earthquake strikes. Key to those plans would be training of locals to…