At its monthly meeting held at Community Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, Oct. 4, the Idyllwild Garden Club chose a new board of directors. The new officers are Co-Secretary Ann Castillo and Ginny Millard, Treasurer Sherry Edwards, First Vice President Erin O’Neill and new Garden Club President Tony Berthelotte.
California Brickelbush (Brickellia californica) is a native shrub and may be one of the best and sweetest smelling plants. From a great distance, you will be drawn by the irresistible, powerful perfume. The wonderful fragrance lasts for almost two weeks and it’s one of those mysterious plant scents that can be smelled only at a distance.
It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of James Paul Haney — known to the love of his life, Jeri Sue, as well as to so many of his friends as Jimmy Love. Jimmy was born on March 29, 1957 in Canoga Park, Calif., and most unexpectedly passed on to another life on…
The annual Town Hall Health Fair will once again offer free flu shots to Hill residents, said Dr. Dick Goldberg. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, approximately 110 to 150 shots will be available. Each year, residents line up early to receive the free shots, and given the limited number available, those…
The Idyllwild HELP Center was recently honored with a proclamation presented by the Riverside County Office on Aging for their assistance to senior members of the community.
The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) is leading a multi-jurisdictional investigation of credit card fraud that ensnared over 20 Idyllwild residents from October through December 2010. The lead investigator, who requested his name not be published, cited cyber hacking of merchant process servers, rather than a locally placed skimmer, as the likely cause. The investigation,…
A 1995 earthquake near Kobe, Japan pushed government and industry to develop an earthquake early warning system (EWS) that helped save lives in the massive March 11, 2011 quake. California is only now beginning development of a similar but smaller scale system, which won’t be ready for four or five years. The 1995 Kobe earthquake…
On Wednesday, Sept. 21, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Michael Peevey directed Southern California Edison (SCE), along with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and San Diego Gas and Electric, to establish programs to allow customers to delay installation of controversial Smart Meters, which the utility companies are using to replace analog meters statewide. SCE…
Dr. Frank Vernon, research geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), will head a team and project that will install seismic monitoring stations at a number of locations on the Hill to measure San Jacinto Fault activity. Two of the stations will be in Idyllwild. The others will be…
An audience of students and faculty members listened to Idyllwild Arts (IA) graduate David Shook read his poetry at the Parks Exhibition Center on Friday, Oct. 7. Shook, a 2004 graduate, has gained a reputation as a translator, poet, documentarian and activist.
