Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” Sheba the dog joined the ARF family. Bobbie: They’re coming and they’re going! Whiskers: Who’s coming, where are they going? Bobbie: Calm down, Whiskers. First of all, Sheba already found a forever family. She’s gone to San Diego. And there’s a story behind this puppy announcement. Audrey:…
By Jack Clark Fashion Advisor Q. My friend has attached a rather large photo of his wife to the dashboard of his car. He thinks it’s fashionable; I think that’s a bit over much. Do you have your wife on the dashboard of your car? –Harold, Mountain Center A. No, just a statue of her. …
By Becky Clark Editor Dave Hunt, a regular participant in “So you think you know the Hill” was the first to answer, followed by two more correct answers. “Marion Mountain was named after Marion Kelly by Edmund Perkins Jr. who surveyed and mapped the San Jacinto Mountains in the 1890s. Marion was a teacher from…
70 years ago – 1947 The U.S. Forest Service reported the insect situation had become critical in the Idyllwild area. Warm weather added another hatch of bugs and 750 trees were infected. 65 years ago – 1952 The season’s rainfall totaled 43 inches. • • • Town Crier saluted Denis Evarts Bowman as one of…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, April 2 to 8. Idyllwild • April 3 — Battery, 24000 block of Fern Valley Rd. Handled by deputy. • April 3 — Check the welfare, address undefined. Handled by deputy. • April 4 — Alarm call, Glen…
A San Jacinto man crashed his vehicle into a guardrail last week. According to the California Highway Patrol, at 5:05 a.m. Friday, April 7, Shane White, 36, of San Jacinto, was driving his black 2011 Ford Fiesta westbound on Highway 74, two-tenths of a mile east of South Fork Trail, when he made an unsafe…
Since the beginning of February, Dwight McKinney, 53, of Mountain Center has been arrested four times. Each arrest was based on drug-related charges, both misdemeanors and felonies. On Tuesday, April 4, he pleaded guilty to three separate charges. Two were misdemeanors and the sentence was equal to the time he has already served in jail….
Daniel Ellis, 24, of Mountain Center, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of receiving a stolen Kawasaki motorcycle. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in state prison. Ellis was arrested in October and had several subsequent arrests, including one Jan. 9, also for possession of a stolen Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, before pleading…
Dr. Thomas Kluzak, a retired physician from Wichita and former head of the University of Kansas Medical School’s Pathology Department, spoke Saturday at the Idyllwild Library about a single-payer health insurance system. Kluzak is passionately in favor of a single-payer system. A single-payer system is often referred to a “Medicare for All.” A single public…
By JP Crumrine News Editor It only took one week, after announcing an agreement to finance major repair and maintenance of California’s road and highway systems, for the Legislature to enact Senate Bill 1 on Thursday night. Over the next 10 years, SB 1 will generate annually about $5.2 billion in new revenue. All these…
