Dave Butterfield, new owner of the Jo’An’s Restaurant property in the center of Idyllwild, confirmed tonight that the building will be razed by the end of the year. He said the property will be returned to a park, as it was when it was dedicated to Eleanor Johnson as Eleanor Park in the 1960s.

The Easter Bunny has reached out to the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC)and Riverside County Parks Ranger Richard Aguilera to raise weatherconcerns about the impending cohosted annual Easter Egg Hunt scheduledfor Saturday, March 30, at the Idyllwild Regional Park (54000 RiversideCounty Playground Road).  I previously reported last week in the Idyllwild Town Crier that theevent would…