Cool and wet, yesterday, today and tomorrow Cool, if not cold for May, and wet describes the Hill’s weather for most of May and probably through the end of the month. For the first three weeks of May, the average daytime temperature recorded at the Idyllwild Fire Station has been 52.2 degrees, which is nearly…
Pam Allen’s May 16 trial readiness conference was rescheduled for July 18. In April 2017, Allen, 66, of Pine Cove, was charged with three felonies for the March 31 collision with Julia Romero, 18, also of Idyllwild, on Highway 243. Two of the charges were for driving under the influence and causing great bodily injury….
California Highway Patrol reported two collisions last week, each involving solo vehicles. At 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, Quiarra Zahque, 19, of Surprise, Arizona, was driving a blue 2002 Pontiac Aztek westbound on Highway 74, 1/4 mile west of May Valley Road, when she drove the vehicle off the right side of the dirt shoulder,…
Cal Fire/Riverside County Here are some of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County responded to recently. • May 15 — Medical aid, 12:32 p.m. Hwy. 74. • May 15 — Medical aid, 4:19 p.m. E. Hwy. 74, Lake Hemet Campground. • May 15 — Traffic collision, 10:32 p.m. Hwy. 74, MM 60. • May 17 —…
New office hours begin June 1; closed Fridays With only three of four directors at the May 17 meeting, the board of the Fern Valley Water District limited the number of decisions until Director Robert Krieger was available. The selection to replace Director George Rowell, who resigned in April, was deferred until a special meeting…
Board meeting later this month The Fern Valley Water District currently has a vacant board seat. Former Director George Rowell resigned in March. His full term ends December 2021. The district advertised the vacancy and requested indications of interest to be submitted by the Friday, May 17, board meeting. Fred Hamblin and James Gates, both…
Editor’s note: This feature ran in the Town Crier on Nov. 4, 1976. Gladys Humphreys died in January 1979 at age 83. “We used to have a view of Lily Rock and Marion Mountain, but the trees grew faster than this house,” laughed Gladys Humphreys, cozy in the modest home that she and her late…
Parks Exhibition Center’s summer gallery season dazzles Parks Exhibition Center, a focal point of the Idyllwild Arts campus, will bring the attention of visitors on a startling range of visual artists this summer gallery season from June 10 to Aug. 3. Since a number of the artists will teach in this year’s Idyllwild Arts Summer…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the ARF cats wondered how people could move and just leave their cats behind. Sadie: Last weekend’s weather really had an impact on our visitors. It was pretty quiet here. Thomas: No kidding. I hope this weekend is better. Zeus: Oh, I think it might be. The…
70 years ago – 1949 Twelve students were in the seventh-grade graduating class at Idyllwild School. Their teacher was Keith Sanberg. 65 years ago – 1954 Searchers were relieved when Jimmy Hartman, 3-1/2 years old, was found unharmed but cramped inside an abandoned ice box. He had been missing for eight hours. 60 years ago…
