In August, the sale of the Mountain Center and Pine Cove markets was announced. Earlier this month, the sale of the Mountain Center Market business was completed. Although the same buyer is purchasing both markets, closure on the Pine Cove Market was delayed, according to owner/seller Shane Stewart. This sale will be completed by early…
Retired Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Commander John Metroka Jr. has always been a writer. As a child, he and his older sister Martha created fantasy stories. Later, even while serving in RCSD, he wrote short stories for his own pleasure. And professionally, he wrote many training documents and protocols for the sheriff’s department and for…
Idyllwild Library Branch Manager and Librarian Shannon Houlihan Ng and staff drafted a proclamation declaring Sunday, Nov. 26, through Saturday, Dec. 2, Friends of Libraries Appreciation Week in Idyllwild. The proclamation, with three pages outlining the many functions and gifts of the Friends of the Idyllwild Library, acknowledges the critical roles the Friends play in…
The Idyllwild Actors Theatre will present its annual holiday banquet of Christmas reminiscences and music, “A Merry Little Christmas,” featuring the work of notable authors and humorists Erma Bombeck, Thornton Wilder, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, David Sedaris and more. “[Our] Christmas tales range from heartwarming to hilarious and bring something for everyone to help jump…
Phyllis Mueller has long served as caretaker for the Idyllwild Christmas sequoia — coordinating and often providing water, mulch, arborist spray and prayers — coordinating with arborist John Huddleston who volunteered his professional time to assist Mueller’s efforts to save the tree. “The tree has made improvement this year over last,” said Mueller, who founded…
Sometime from Sunday night, Nov. 19, to Monday morning, Nov. 20, vandals defaced historic parts of the Idyllwild Pines Camp, including its iconic covered bridge and amphitheater. The graffiti, owing to its immature nature and subject matter, was likely the work of indolent local youth. “It’s so disappointing,” said Ron Perry, pickleball volunteer who, along…
Anthony Michael Wood, 25, of Idyllwild, was arrested on Westridge Road on Nov. 14 for a variety of sex crimes. A felony settlement conference has been scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 29. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office filed eight charges, to which he pleaded not guilty. These charges range from sexual acts with a child…
On Nov. 16, the state’s new Bureau of Cannabis Control, housed in the Department of Consumer Affairs, issued an emergency rulemaking in order to ensure that the state can regulate the medicinal- and adult-use cannabis businesses — from cultivation to retail sales— beginning Jan. 1. In anticipation of both cannabis use sales, the BCC, along…
Cal Fire/Riverside County Firefighters, along with firefighters from the San Bernardino National Forest, are on scene of a fully involved structure fire with a small spot of vegetation in Poppet Flats. The first arriving engine company reported a structure fully involved. As of 4 p.m., eight fire companies with 64 firefighters were already on the…
