The Idyllwild Water District lost two of its five directors in September. Former President James Billman and Director Mike Freitas resigned unexpectedly within the same week. The remaining directors have not been able to appoint replacements because Vice President John Cook prefers to wait and hold an election in March 2017. Regardless of the victors,…
“We’re looking for volunteers to help us with Point-In-Time, an annual counting of homeless within the community,” stated Supv. Chuck Washington, 3rd District. The Point-In-Time census will be held Jan. 27, 2017, throughout Riverside County. “This count is used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development not only as a measure of the…
Hikers on the Round Valley Hiking Trail discovered an unresponsive 46-year-old man in full cardiac arrest around 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11. Hikers notified rangers at the mountaintop Tram Station. According to Mark Hudgens, state park superintendent, rangers went to the scene with an automated external defibrillator. Hikers who had found the man had…
Editor: Regarding last week’s letter, “Requiem for Tomorrow,” I strongly differ from the writer’s views regarding those who voted for President-elect Trump. I believe that in spite of all of the vitriolic rhetoric from both sides during the campaign, Trump did what was needed to win, dirty as it looked. And as the dust settled…
Editor’s note: Co-publisher Jack Clark is writing “Out Loud” this week: For the Nov. 16 Idyllwild Water District meeting, Acting Board President John Cook hired an armed, uniformed sheriff’s deputy at a cost of $300 because of disturbances at the Sept. 22 meeting caused by one member of the public and “a reporter,” he said….
At last week’s Fern Valley Water District board meeting, General Manager Victor Jimenez reported that water conditions were stable. While creek flow has declined in October, he relied on wells for a larger portion of the district’s water source. “The well levels have moved very little, which is great,” Jimenez said. “There is no [water]…
A serious injury collision on Saturday, Nov. 19, sent one local woman to the hospital. The California Highway Patrol’s preliminary report stated that at 5:05 p.m., Edwin Hansen, 66, of Idyllwild, was driving his 2006 red Honda CRV eastbound on North Circle Drive in Idyllwild, just east of River Road, when he struck “a pedestrian,”…
In the middle of September, two Idyllwild Water District directors unexpectedly resigned but Acting Board President John Cook asserted that the vacancies would remain unfilled until a special election was called, no earlier than March. Whoever won that election would have to be re-elected for a full term in August. After the meeting ended abruptly…
The Town Crier, the Idyllwild Library and the Idyllwild Area Historical Society have partnered to provide vintage issues of the town newspaper online and free at the Idyllwild Library. Started in November 1946 by Ernie and Betty Maxwell, the Town Crier is one of Idyllwild’s oldest ongoing businesses. Shannon Ng, Idyllwild Library librarian, cited the…
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema enters year eight strong and healthy with 11 days and two weekends in which to see all films. IIFC opens on Thursday, Jan. 5 and runs through Sunday, Jan. 15. Stephen Savage’s idea for an independent film festival began as a valentine to Idyllwild — a way to bring…
