The Idyllwild Water District Board of directors has scheduled a special meeting at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24. The first item on the agenda will be an announcement regarding a vacant director’s seat and how the Board will fill it. At the end of the regular Oct. 17 meeting, Director David Hunt announced his intention…

You may have noticed an unnamed black and gold helicopter flying for 30 to 45 minutes over Idyllwild last Friday afternoon. The helicopter is leased by WaveRider Helicopters of Oceanside from November Alpha LLC. Kurt Dawson, owner/pilot of WaveRider, said his company was contracted by a surveyor to survey the power grid in our area. “The surveyor was probably hired by SCE,” he said, and Dawson and an employee were given a map to survey problems in the grid such things as trees in the power lines.

The individual who died in a March 24 traffic collision on Highway 74 near Pinyon has been identified as John Davis, 76, of Mountain Center, according to the California Highway Patrol. A non-injury collision involving a 1994 Ford F-250 ran off Highway 74 near Forbes Ranch Road and into a barbed wire fence at 12:38…