Dolly Parton, country music star whose music touched millions around the world, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at her home in Nashville Tennessee. She was 80 years old. Parton owned a cabin in Idyllwild on Upper Pine Crest for many years, finally selling it in the summer of 2024. Parton was also a regular…
Both candidates for U.S. Congressional District 48, which includes Idyllwild and Pine Cove, will be holding meet and greets in Idyllwild this week. Jim Desmond, the Republican, will be meeting voters at Tahquitz Pines Retreat on Friday Aug. 21, and Marni Von Wilpert, the Democratic candidate, will be at the Idyllwild Community Center on Saturday…
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Caltrans has released a warning about upcoming work on Highway 243: “RIVERSIDE COUNTY — The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will begin an emergency project (estimated $2.3 million) to reconstruct the roadway and shoulder, stabilize and repair embankments, remove debris, and conduct culvert and basin repairs on State Route 243 (SR-243) southeast of Banning after roadway washout…
Georgie Smith is a part-time Idyllwilder whose nonprofit organization, A Sense of Home (ASOH), has gotten a lot of positive attention over the last year, culminating in her inclusion among TIME Magazine’s inaugural Visionaries list. The list honors “change-makers helping children and young people reach their full potential.” The same day that the list came…...
Earth and Fire, Idyllwild’s paint-your-own pottery studio, is celebrating 30 years of continuous activity in its location on the second floor of the Fort. Owner Zara Mc Mullen and her daughter Fiona noted that when Summer Brown opened the studio in 1996, it was only the third in the US, after two opened by Color…...
The Friends of the Idyllwild Library have announced that they recently ordered the 100th new book that they will donate to the library. The Friends, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3), arrange many of the educational and entertaining presentations that the library hosts every weeks, run the self-serve used book store in the library, and purchase books to…...
The Tokens will headline the second installment of Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series tonight, Thursday, July 9, with Sandii Castleberry and Lily McCabe opening. The music starts at 6:05 p.m., with the headliners taking the stage at 7:00 p.m. The Tokens are the doo-wop greats remembered for “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and original tunes like…...
On Sunday, June 28, a pair of stranded climbers were rescued from the West Lark route on Tahquitz Rock by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s helicopter. High winds at elevation made the mission too dangerous for even RSO’s twin-engine Airbus H145 known as Rescue 9. “LA Sheriff Air 5 was subsequently requested to conduct the…...
Pine Cove residents have reported that water was leaking near a Pine Cove Water District main, just past CAL FIRE Station 23, where Caltrans is working on the Highway 243 Mill and Overlay project. PCWD General Manager tells us “While repaving, a leak was discovered and brought to our attention. We are aware of it…...
