Author: David Jerome

The Idyllwild Home Tour takes place this year this Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Tickets are $30 per person to tour five private homes. The tour is presented by the Idyllwild Area Historical Society.                   IAHS President Ed Warner writes that this year five local homeowners will open their “private mountain…...

Riverside Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the names of the officers that will speak at the Saturday Sept. 19 community meeting about Flock automated license plate reader cameras (ALPRs), according to Idyllwild Indivisble facilitator Elaine Bacher.  The speakers will be Chief Deputy Ken Reichle and Captain Walter Mendez. According to RSOs website, Reichle has been with…...

Science educator Peter Kindfield will be conducting a special nature walk this Sunday, Sept. 13, at the Idyllwild Nature Center. Kindfield tells us that he has given a number of presentations at the Nature Center, but this will be different. “This one I’m really focused, the other ones were just guided walks. I have a…...

Multiple residents reported many units of Riverside Sheriff’s Office arriving at a house in the 59000 block of Highway 243 on the morning of Thursday, September 3. These reports included sighting an officer with weapon drawn. A drive by just before 1 p.m. showed at least four sheriff’s vehicles at both entrances to the property…...

Dr. Talisin Hammond of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) gave a presentation at the Idyllwild Nature on conservation breeding, reintroduction, and management of the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog on Saturday Aug. 29. Dr Hammond said she is one of eight scientists on the “core frog team” at the zoo. The restoration effort includes…...

A fire, alternately named “Panarama” and “Panorama,” closed access to Mountain Communities from Banning on Monday, Aug. 30. According to Cal Fire’s website, the incident was initially reported just after noon as a vehicle over the side near Highway 243 and Mount Edna Road. The vehicle caught fire, which extended into the surrounding vegetation.                   One…...

Idyllwild’s house-call veterinarian, Lorraine Kassarjian, will soon be taking a trip to Zambia, where she will help put radio collars on wild animals at the Nyamvu Game Reserve. “I’m leaving in two weeks. I’m working on three different projects, collaring Roan antelopes, Cape buffaloes, and lions. I’m working with group of veterinarians and conservationist.”                    Kassarjian…...