2015 will bring us the 25th-annual Idyllwild Earth Fair. However, a significant change will occur this year. The event has been re-scheduled to a September weekend from its traditional mid-May appearance. This year, on May 16, the Earth Fair organizers will hold a yard sale to raise money for the fall fair. The address of…

Over the next few weeks, the Idyllwild Scholarship Fund board is requesting community donations to support scholarships for area 2022 high school graduates.The Idyllwild Scholarship Fund goes back to 1969 when three students were awarded “scholarships.” One was for $250, another for $100, and one student received a dictionary. In April 2021, six high school…

By San Bernardino National ForestContributed Officials with San Bernardino National Forest-U.S. Forest Service are requesting comments by July 23, 2020, for reforesting areas within the 2018 Cranston Fire footprint.  In order to maintain a resilient genetic pool of alpine forest, Forest Service staff are proposing to plant hundreds of thousands of Coulter pine, Jeffrey pine and bigcone Douglas-fir tree…

“Helen, it got me,” Lee Anderson called out to her friend Helen Hixon of Idyllwild. Wednesday, May 15, the two women were hiking along a road in Garner Valley. They were not on Thomas Mountain or hiking a trail leading to the Pacific Crest Trail. This trail was chosen because of all the wildflowers blooming…