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Idyllwild Town Hall Director GeGe Beagle’s team continues to grow. After school councelors are now on staff: Kylie Kenyon’s (left) and Susan Swanson’s first priority is to help children with homework and assist with recreation activities. Photo by Grace Reed

In its first session of fiscal year 2016-17, which started July 1, the Idyllwild Fire Department’s Finance Committee had a nominal session. The five-member committee still has two citizen vacancies. Calvin Gogerty, an IFPD resident, is now the committee chair, and commissioners Nancy Layton and Jeannine Charles-Stigall join him on the committee. “I’ve talked to…
Vincent Daniel Gillman, 51, of Pine Cove, was arrested Thursday, June 14, by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on felony charges of suspicion of violation of Penal Code sections on embezzlement and second-degree burglary. Penal Code section 503 defines embezzlement as “the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted (sic),”…
On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the U.S. Forest Service plans to begin the Thomas Mountain Prescribed Burn at about 9 a.m. Operations may continue through the weekend. An unexpected change in weather conditions will cancel the burn. Intermittent recreational closures may occur at Thomas Mountain yellow post sites (semi-developed campgrounds), Thomas Mountain Road (6S13) and the…
The Idyllwild Forest Health Project (IFHP) and its Mountain Communities Mutual Aid (MCMA) organization, working with local therapist Robyn Winks, will be bringing a roster of local mental health professionals to Town Hall for a series of six Saturday morning adult workshops to “help community members gain healthy, updated coping skills and practices to thrive…
Fog starts rolling in Thursday afternoon as the rain begins to patter … Plants lean, as if to drink from the puddles the rain creates.
At the Nov. 21 Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) meeting, Jazz in the Pines Logistic Director Ted Cummings informed the directors that festival planners do not plan to continue their Jazz and Jambalaya Saturday night dinner and entertainment. This will also eliminate any conflict with the in-town Marshall Hawkins jazz concert which the Chamber sponsored…