Brendan Steele posted +13 +7 E +12 = +32 in Stableford scoring last week in the Barracuda Classic on the Montreux Golf & Country Club course in Reno to grab a tie for fifth place. He did it with 18 birdies and an eagle against nine bogeys. The native Idyllwilder collected his ninth top-20 finish…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, June 17, monthly golf tournament, which was played at The Country Club at Soboba Springs in San Jacinto. It was sunny and hot, and the course was in good shape. Jerry Daquila (course handicap 23) and Lev Sanford (23)…
The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management will host four Sand to Snow National Monument collaborative workshops in July. The first will be July 13 in Yucaipa. The workshops will provide an opportunity for information sharing between the public, Forest Service and BLM about the Sand to Snow National Monument. President Barrack Obama…
Brendan Steele tees off at Troon, Scotland, in The Open Championship on Thursday, July 14th, at 2:42 a.m. PDT and Friday at 7:43 a.m. PDT.
At its July meeting, the Pine Cove Property Owners Association announced its annual donations to local community organizations. This year, PCPOA is giving $7,900, $600 more than the 2015 gift total. Two organizations — the Idyllwild HELP Center and Mountain Disaster Preparedness — received $1,500 each. And two others —Pine Cove Fire Station 23 and…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls Friday, June 10, to Sunday, June 26. Idyllwild • June 10 — Cooking fire, confined to container, 54000 block of S. Circle Dr. • June 11 — Medical aid, Deerfoot Ln. • June 11 — Lock out, 25000 block of Hwy. 243. • June…
As June ends and fire season begins, the San Bernardino National Forest implemented seasonal fire restrictions effective Thursday, June 30. “Monthly and seasonal weather outlooks predict above-normal, large-fire potential from July to September 2016. With these predictions, we want our visitors to be able to continue to enjoy their public lands, but our main priority…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District adopted its preliminary 2016-17 budget last week. The total budget is slightly more than $2 million and about $170,000 more than the 2015-16 budget. Growth in revenues is largely from two sources. The revenues from the county’s property taxes are expected to increase about $140,000 and reimbursement from participation in…
Standing in line while waiting for the person in front of you to get their address correct and to stop asking about how to connect the arrows may become historic vignettes if California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla can convince the state Legislature to enact his proposal for a new voting process. Padilla’s recommendation, which…
On Friday, July 1, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced that 17 propositions — legislative, initiative, and referendum measures — will be on the November 8 General Election ballot. The State Legislature is still considering three more possible additions. Of the seventeen, six are amendments to the state constitution and one is referendum. The…
