Rain started falling on the Hill hours before sunrise this morning. By 3 p.m., about 1.3 inches had been recorded at the Idyllwild Fire Station. The U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station had received about 1.1 inches. Further north, the Forest Service Vista Grande station has recorded 2.2 inches of rain. Communities in the San…
UPDATE 12:02 p.m.: Edison estimates power will be “Up for most” by 1 p.m. Southern California Edison is reporting a power outage in Fern Valley currently affecting 692 customers. Edison’s website shows that this is a “repair outage.” Crews are in the process of determining the cause of the outage. There is no restoration time…
The intensive search for David Elliot Bradish, 80, has ended. He has been missing since about 3:30 p.m. Monday and has not been found. Today’s rain and possible snow make this kind of search more and more difficult. Bradish is a white male, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, with gray hair and blue eyes, and…
Budding comedy writer and late-night host next at Idy Talks Granted, Idyllwild Arts senior Josh Thomas is only 17. But he has had the same dream since he was 8, and piece by piece his dream is coming together. “I’ve just wanted to be a ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member and a late-night television host,” he…
Idyllwild resident Paul Young grew up in radio broadcasting and made the transition to television news in the 1950s. Born in Texas and a graduate of the University of Texas, Austin’s radio broadcasting program, Young got his first jobs in radio in Texas — in Bay City, Harlingen and Corpus Christi. “I began as an…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the ARF cats were wondering who will be the new office cat and met the puppies. Pepper: Well, this is interesting. Zeus: Do tell! Pepper: The office cat is now a brand-new cat! Whatever happened to seniority? New Sadie: You must be talking about me. My name…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney in November. Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association held its November tourney on Friday, Nov. 16, at Menifee Lakes Country Club. It was a beautiful fall day with partly cloudy skies and comfortable temperatures, and the…
In a longish pre-holiday meeting last week, the directors of the Idyllwild Water District addressed several major issues. During the regular portion of the meeting, they adopted a water shortage contingency plan (see accompanying story), took a position on the district’s role serving the Idyllwild Community Center, tabled the issue of rebates for water filters and intensified the search for a new general manager …
Retail and growing licenses will take longer Initial applications for some cannabis business activities can be submitted to the Riverside County Planning Department on Dec. 26. In October, the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance establishing allowable and prohibited commercial cannabis uses within the unincorporated areas of the county. This also defined the land-use zones…
