About two months after California’s electric utilities submitted their wildfire mitigation plans to the state Public Utility Commission, the agency issued proposed decisions for the three largest utilities, including Southern California Edison. The two administrative law judges reviewing the documents agreed that the plans complied with the requirements of Senate Bill 901. Tentative decisions were…
70 years ago – 1949 Dr. Harry Pearlman, Louis Pearlman, Louis Artin and Sam Melca started up Devil’s Slide Trail hoping to hike down the desert side. But after nine hours of floundering in snow up to their armpits, they reappeared in Fern Valley. 65 years ago – 1954 A San Bernardino radio show host…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the ARF cats talked about how many of them are lap cats. Zeus: I was hoping last week’s “Creature Corner” would encourage humans to see what great lap cats we are. Thomas: Well, Heavenly Whiskers has some interest. Zeus: Seriously? That’s great! Whiskers, tell us about it….
Idyllwild Arts Film students show that nothing could be better By Don Stoll Idyllwild Arts Manager of Communications and International Student Relations Idyllwild Arts Academy’s film and digital media students will showcase their films — and show why they often ask “What could be better than this?” — on Wednesday, May 15, in the William…
Seventeen-year-old Idyllwild Arts Academy senior Mark Beebe was one of 14 “future superstars” selected as Grand Prize Finalists at The Music Center’s 31st-annual Spotlight Program. He will perform at the ticketed Grand Finale Performance at The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. About 1,600 students auditioned from more than…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild awarded nearly $9,000 in scholarships and grants to local women and girls in the last 12 months. Club members and awardees celebrated their success at a dinner hosted by Ferro on Thursday, April 25. The club received four applications for the annual Live Your Dream Award and all four were awarded…
Caltrans added one more hour in morning to Highway 74 opening Traffic flow on Highway 243 between Franklin Drive and Fire Station 23 (Pine Cove) will be slowed between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Caltrans will have maintenance crews removing a boulder near Lakeview Dr. Consequently, only one lane will be available…
Process does not separate significant projects from minor ones Verizon has constructed and installed a new cell tower in Idyllwild. It is on the Idyllwild Inn property and is not yet operational. Learning of and seeing the completed project has worried and raised the ire of several local residents. However, the Riverside County Planning Commission held…
A question has been raised about the legality of the construction debris fees, which CR&R, the management agency, imposes at the Idyllwild Transfer Station. The last time the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved these fees was June 2014. Resolution 2014-081 authorized the then transfer station management, Waste Management Inc., to continue to impose a…
Ken Dahleen, founder and producer of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, announced the performers for the 2019 — the 20th-annual — ISCS. The first headliner, and these are all headline acts, will be The Diamonds, nationally famous and treasured. Do not come alone to this event, be sure to bring your “Little Darlin’.” Dahleen has…
