David Jerome Correspondent Local banking customers know the bank has changed ownership from BBVA Compass to PNC. Last October, at the beginning of this transition, a slew of newspapers, especially in Texas and Arizona, reported retail and business customers being locked out of their accounts, or being unable to find them. Some Idyllwild customers experienced…
David Jerome Correspondent Local resident Marilyn Bunnell recently celebrated her 95th birthday. Idyllwild has been her home since her retirement in the mid-1980s, after a long career as a life-science educator. She was born Sept. 7, 1926, in Los Angeles, to Frank and Dora Bunnell. For many years she shared her home in Fern Valley…
Spirit Mountain Retreat’s annual Winter Solstice Celebration is at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19, at St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church. The local women’s a cappella group Local Color will perform. All ages are welcome and bringing finger food is appreciated for after the celebration. Friends of the Idyllwild Library is sponsoring a holiday open house to…
Kristine Louise Gorzny, 68, died at her home in Glenwood, Oregon Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Born Dec. 20, 1952 in La Jolla, she was the youngest of Frank and Dorothea Gorzny’s four children.The Gorzny family moved to Idyllwild in June 1953, where Krysti later attended Idyllwild Elementary and then Hemet High School.As a teenager, she…
Editor’s note: This story is taken from a Louisiana State University (LSU) press release.Skymount Medical has partnered with Riverside University Health System (RUHS) Medical Center to hold the first U.S. clinical trial on the efficacy of COVID-19 oral therapeutics LSU researchers discovered using artificial intelligence (AI). The testing will be conducted through RUHS Medical Center’s…
As of Tuesday morning, the Dashboard of the Hemet Unified School District (HUSD) reported recently confirmed cases (last two weeks) of COVID at Idyllwild School as being no students and one staff member, meaning 0.33% of its combined student/staff population, the same as last week. At Hemet High, no students and two staff members are…
Idyllwild FireThe Idyllwild Fire Protection District responded to these calls from Monday to Sunday, Nov. 29 to Dec. 5. • Nov. 29 — Public service assist, 7 p.m. Marantha Dr.• Nov. 29 — EMS call, provide advanced life support, 9:25 p.m. Maranatha Dr.• Nov. 30 — EMS call, provide ALS, 8:15 a.m. Maranatha Dr.• Nov….
Dear editor:I would like to add another perspective on the current debate over short-term rentals (STRs).The original ordinance regulating STRs was “introduced” Nov. 17, 2015, then passed, with changes, and without another reading, in January 2016. The revisions not read allowed street parking and waiving of occupancy limits, giving free rein to large groups using…
The Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) Board of Directors, in a 15-minute special meeting last Wednesday, approved a $1,657,330 agenda item as part of outgoing General Manager Jerry Holldber’s 10/20/50-year plan.John Egan of Engineering Resources of Southern California prepared the final draft of the Preliminary Engineering Report for water systems improvements the district plans to…
65 years ago – 1956The newly organized Pine Cove County Water District planned to ask voters to approve a $110,000 bond issue to purchase facilities and make improvements. 60 years ago – 1961Town Crier interviewed Victoria Brooke, daughter of Charles and Genoveva Thomas, the first white settlers in the mountains. Mrs. Brooke recalled that her…
