Traffic delay on Highway 243
Caltrans is doing work on Highway 243 just north of Black Mountain Road. One lane is closed. Expect delays.
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Grants Awarded
2015 Mary Austin Scholarships and Grants recipients are Emi See (second from left), Carmel Companiott and Kyra Espinosa. Presenting the $1,000 Idyllwild School Charles Dickens Essay & Poster Contest Scholarships are Doug Austin (far left), Rick Foster (second from right), Idyllwild Rotary Club president, and Suzy Capparelli (far right) Mary Austin Scholarships and Grants ambassador.
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New Idyllwild Fire ambulance in crash
Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz reported that one of the district’s new ambulances was involved in a crash while transferring a patient during the foggy weather this past weekend. This was one of several items he mentioned during his report at Tuesday’s Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission meeting. “Last weekend, there was an accident with…
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Relatively quiet on Hill roads over holiday weekend
Even though much of the Memorial Day weekend was cold, foggy and rainy, Hill roads remained free of major traffic incidents. California Highway Patrol Cabazon Pass Station Public Information Officer Darren Meyer reported two incidents, neither near Idyllwild. The first, a rollover, occurred at 8:06 a.m. Wednesday, May 20, on Highway 74 1.8 miles east…
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Dog walker discovers injured man
A local man made a grim discovery Tuesday afternoon, May 19, when out walking his dog on a trail near Strawberry Creek. Brad Pace of Idyllwild was walking at around 2 p.m. about 200 yards east of the Strawberry Creek Bridge at Highway 243 when his dog pulled him toward something off the trail. Pace…
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Fashion Jack: Undershirts & glasses
Q. I’ve gained some weight and now a lot of my shirts are way too tight so the shirts strain at the front and my white undershirt shows between the buttons. What can I do? — Bubba, Aguanga A. You have three options to keep your undershirt from showing: 1) Don’t wear undershirts, 2) find…
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Finch and friends find hip highs and humorous lows
Barnaby Finch and friends explore the hip highs and humorous lows of jazz and country music in their annual concert to benefit the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation Scholarship Fund. Tickets for the Sunday, May 31, event are $40 and are inclusive of the 11:30 a.m. brunch, at the Fireside Room in Nelson Dining Hall…
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Creature Corner: May 28, 2015
Catnis, the Maltese-mix and the cattle dog (actually a Catahoula) Smiley have been spoken for. That leaves Peeta, the brown and white male King Charles-mix (right), and Rue, the small female Chihuahua-mix (below). For days, the community and animal control tried to capture three of them, (not Smiley) from Highway 243. Patience from our Hill…
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Past tense: May 28, 2015
65 years ago – 1950 Audie Murphy’s film, “The Kid from Texas,” was playing at the Rustic Theatre. It was shot the previous year on the mountain. 60 years ago – 1955 The Froehlichs were installing a larger screen in the Rustic Theatre so Cinemascope films could be shown. 55 years ago – 1960 Leigh…
