Governor and Legislature insist, cost notwithstanding Gov. Jerry Brown has placed California firmly on the path to “clean energy.” On Sept. 10, he signed Senate Bill 100, to be known as “The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018.” Senator Kevin de León, president pro tempore of the California State Senate, introduced the bill, which…
From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, a household hazardous waste collection will be available at the County Road Site, behind the Idyllwild Fire Station. On that day, local residents may bring a plethora of potentially hazardous materials to the site for free collection. (See attached list of acceptable materials.) Unacceptable items include…
Stratford Players, Idyllwild’s classical company dedicated to keeping Shakespeare front and center, presents “Will in the Woods” season six, “Lovers and Scoundrels.” On the bill are scenes from Shakespearean classics “Julius Caesar,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Othello,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Richard III,” and scenes featuring two major Shakespeare characters, Falstaff and Mistress Quickly….
First workshop on Native American plant uses is Sept. 29 We “cannot learn the properties of every plant in a lifetime,” said Daniel McCarthy, archaeologist, former Tribal Relations Program manager for the San Bernardino National Forest, and director of the Cultural Resources Management Department, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. “Native peoples passed plant knowledge…
Shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, an automobile pulled into the Pine Cove Market next to the gas pumps and then caught on fire. Fire extinguishers were unsuccessful on the fire but engines 23 and 3172 from Riverside County Fire Department Station 23 in Pine Cove arrived. Crews extinguished the fire prior to any damage to…
A California Highway Patrol helicopter was involved in a search for a lost hiker Thursday afternoon near Lawler Lodge.
Cheryle Ann Hamilton, 71, of Hemet, passed away at her home on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, after a short battle with cancer. She was preceded in death by her father, Donald B. Maag Jr, and is survived by her daughter Kim Hamilton Mueller; her grandchildren Adrian, Olivia and Rene Hernandez; her mother Virginia D. Maag;…
Antoinette Feyder lost her battle with multiple sclerosis on Sunday, July 22, 2018. She passed peacefully in her beloved Idyllwild home with her family by her side. She was born June 11, 1945, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She traveled as a young adult, teaching English in Montreal and New York. She moved to Miami to manage…
In what some contend was an effort to curb “fake news,” President Donald Trump’s Department of Commerce imposed higher tariffs on newsprint imported from Canada. This would raise the cost of paper, thus having a negative effect on the national newspaper industry. The initial proposal was to raise tariffs on this product 22 percent, but…
Leslie Schelly honored by board The Hemet Unified School District Board of Trustees held its Sept. 4 meeting at Idyllwild School. After the roll call, Vicky Lovett, an eighth-grade student at Idyllwild School, led the board and audience in the “Pledge of Allegiance.” The first action of the evening was the announcement that the board…
