I was very close when the fatal crash near McCall Park occurred on Saturday. Two riders on Suzuki or similar bikes had passed me at high speed across the double yellow on a blind curve. Then they swerved from side to side to see how close to horizontal they could get. Once I stopped to…
I attended a meeting of the Fire Code Committee on Feb. 11, 2015, sponsored by the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council. The purpose was to hear how the San Bernardino County Mountain Defensible Space Guidelines work. It has three rules: within 15, 30 and 100 feet of a structure. The illustration they presented showed a…
As of Friday, Feb. 20, California health officials reported 123 confirmed cases of measles since December 2014. That is 50 more cases in a month and twice the total cases in 2014. A week ago, the total cases in the U.S. were 141. As a result of the expanding measles outbreak, state senators Dr. Richard…
65 years ago – 1950 Eleanor Johnson’s long-cherished project of beautifying Village Circle got underway. 60 years ago – 1955 Ted Belden filed a patent on the special design for the Pinecraft “Idyllwild Chair.” It was a fitted-to-size chair proportioned to small, average or big people. 55 years ago – 1960 The Christian Science Society,…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild continues its full calendar of public events with this year’s iteration of its popular “Eye of the Artist” art show and social gathering. The event mixes delights for the senses — art in a variety of media by local AAI artists, auctions, drawings, wine, hors d’oeuvres and music in a…
The National Weather Service has issued a storm watch for the Riverside County mountains from Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon. The full text of the storm watch is as follows: Winter Storm Watch URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 333 AM PST THU FEB 26 2015 …A COLD WINTRY STORM…
At his first indoor track meet, a statewide competition in Fresno, Jayden Emerson, of Hemet High School and Idyllwild, finished second in his heat and ninth overall in the 2-mile race.
Last Thursday, Feb. 19, the “Hillbilly Games” were held at the Idyllwild Library. The first event pitted two teams in a game of Idyllwild Jeopardy. Here, members of Team One — Barbara Hunt, Bud Hunt and Gina Genis — prepare to answer the first question, “Who was named homecoming queen the same year her brother, David, came home from the Air Force?” All the questions were based on archived copies of the Idyllwild Town Crier, available at the Idyllwild Library or online, from 1949 through 1956.
For the second consecutive weekend, a motorcycle fatality occurred on Highway 74. This collision was late Saturday morning, Feb. 21, just west of McCall Park Road. The victim was Ashley Shinn, 29, of Moreno Valley. She was riding a red and black 2007 Honda CR6 westbound on Highway 74 at about 11:15 a.m. Approaching in…
On Sunday, Roger Bates and Barbara Rayliss perform the night’s theme song “Let Me Entertain You” to start off Stratford Players Black Tie Bash, which thanked supporters and patrons of the theater company at the Caine Center.
