Photos: Last week in Idyllwild: November 12, 2015
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Past Tense: November 12, 2015
65 years ago – 1950 U.S. Forest Service officials inspected the newly paved Banning-Idyllwild Highway before it’s acceptance into the national forest system. 60 years ago – 1955 At a hearing before the County Board of Supervisors, a group of about 75 people demanded that the supervisors throw out all mountain zoning and place the…
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Creature Corner: November 12, 2015
Yay for Mrs. Magu.She is in her forever home. We will always love you, Magu. We have two new kittens at ARF, Charlotte and Webster. And maybe more to come. Now, if you are interested in a lap cat, Bubbles is the perfect match. She is an 8-year-old female calico, declawed and the best office…
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Frank Vernon details San Jacinto Fault monitoring
Dr. Frank Vernon, research seismologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, San Diego, spoke in Anza about seismic monitoring in the Anza Valley. Vernon spoke last Friday at Hamilton High School Library about field arrays that have been placed throughout the Anza Valley to monitor seismic activity on the San Jacinto Fault….
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Readers Write: Living with coyotes, not killing them …
Editor: Living next to the County Park, or next to state and national forest lands, as many do, is to live with the wildlife of our mountain. When a pack of coyotes is heard in the night, crying in group frenzy, it is a fearsome sound, which we need to respect and bring our pets…
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Out Loud: November 12, 2015
Last Tuesday, the day I went home after deadline, was my last day of feeling tired following the Sept. 25 heart attack. I woke up Wednesday feeling energized and it hasn’t stopped. In fact, I feel better than I have in years. I finally visited my new cardiologist Thursday and need to undergo some tests…
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First flu deaths of 2015-16 season reported
While state health officials report that the new flu season activity is low, sporadic and within expected levels, two deaths have already been reported in California. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, the state Department of Public Health reported the death of a person under age 65 who lived in Santa Clara County. Two days later, CDPH…
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Pay-TV services to change carriers: DirecTV will be AT&T and Time Warner merges with Charter
The delivery of televised entertainment or pay-TV will be changing for many Hill subscribers. Two major national business transactions are consolidating the market for “cable” service. DirecTV DirecTV, which delivers televised entertainment through satellite transmissions rather than a high-speed cable to the house, is now a unit of AT&T. The Federal Communications Commission approved AT&T’s…
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Idyllwild Fire elections to change to even-numbered years: Will coincide with presidential or gubernatorial elections
At Riverside County Board of Supervisor’s Tuesday meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s request to change its election years was approved without any discussion. Beginning in 2018, the election of IFPD commissioners will coincide with either presidential or California gubernatorial elections. In April, the IFPD commission approved a resolution requesting that future elections be held…
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Readers Write: Second Amendment …
Editor: The only reason we are citizens of the United States of America rather than citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations such as Canada, Australia or New Zealand is because in 1775 the colonists did have guns which gave them the ability to assert their rights. The first battle of the Revolutionary War was the…
