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60 years ago – 1956 Local Forest Service firefighters had a harrowing close call as they fought a 10,500-acre inferno after a jet crashed in the San Bernardino Mountains. A crew, trapped on a ridge as the fire roared from three sides, laid down in a ditch and sweated it out as searing flames leaped…
Last week in The Days of Our Nine Lives, the ARF dogs and cats welcomed two new adult cats to the cattery. King Kitty: (hollering to the cats from the office) I have news! Leia: Don’t make us wait. Spit it out! King Kitty: Steve the dog got adopted on Saturday. Girlie Girl: What a…
Aimed at curbing nuisance and noise activity, Ordinance 927 adopted by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors requires owners of short-term rentals in the county’s unincorporated areas to register their properties. Short-term rental owners must pay an annual registration fee, be subject to a 10 percent annual transient occupancy tax, and comply with guidelines to…
Mark Hudgens is the new Mt. San Jacinto State Park superintendent. He took over his new position in August of this year. Having spent the last 14 years in the Perris district, Hudgens inherits a far larger state park to supervise with his move to the Mt. San Jacinto District. “Perris was roughly 8,800 acres…
Elora Hardy, CEO of Ibuku, a Bali (Indonesia) based company that builds sustainable, dreamlike structures almost entirely from bamboo, will speak in Idyllwild. She’ll talk about reimagining and creating living and work spaces that are more in harmony with nature. Hardy, formerly a fabric designer for Donna Karan and DKNY in New York, read a…
The William M. Lowman Concert Hall, an architectural and acoustical jewel gracing the Idyllwild Arts campus, was formally dedicated on Saturday, Sept. 24, with a gala alumni classical concert and reception. Although an alumni jazz concert was the first held in Lowman, on March 5 of this year, the formal inauguration had always been scheduled…
The Friends of the Idyllwild Library announce their upcoming annual meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Rainbow Inn. After the ratification of new officers for the Friends, reports from the former office holders, and summary transactions of new business, an invitation is extended to all attendees for the annual performance event, which…
From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! — Old Scottish prayer. Kathy Sacher-Wilson and crew are in the process of constructing and decorating their annual Halloween walk-through spook fest, set to open on Friday, Oct. 7, and run weekends though Halloween, Monday,…
Idyllwild’s Mountain Quilters hold their 13th-annual Quilt Show on Oct. 8 and 9 at Buckhorn Camp. Titled, “A Cabin in the Woods,” the show’s theme reflects the resident quilters’ gratitude for being fortunate enough to craft quilts in a mountain cabin in idyllic Idyllwild. From 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day, the public is…
The William M. Lowman Concert Hall, an architectural and acoustical jewel gracing the Idyllwild Arts campus, was formally dedicated on Saturday, Sept. 24, with a gala alumni classical concert and reception. Although an alumni jazz concert was the first held in Lowman, on March 5 of this year, the formal inauguration had always been scheduled…
