On Monday, May 6, the California Highway Patrol San Gorgonio Pass Area announced it is implementing a stronger traffic enforcement campaign. The program began last week and will continue through September 2019. These efforts will focus on the San Gorgonio Pass Area’s top primary collision factors that are causing injury and fatal collisions within this…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild awarded nearly $9,000 in scholarships and grants to local women and girls in the last 12 months. Club members and awardees celebrated their success at a dinner hosted by Ferro on Thursday, April 25. The club received four applications for the annual Live Your Dream Award and all four were awarded…
Caltrans added one more hour in morning to Highway 74 opening Traffic flow on Highway 243 between Franklin Drive and Fire Station 23 (Pine Cove) will be slowed between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Caltrans will have maintenance crews removing a boulder near Lakeview Dr. Consequently, only one lane will be available…
Process does not separate significant projects from minor ones Verizon has constructed and installed a new cell tower in Idyllwild. It is on the Idyllwild Inn property and is not yet operational. Learning of and seeing the completed project has worried and raised the ire of several local residents. However, the Riverside County Planning Commission held…
A question has been raised about the legality of the construction debris fees, which CR&R, the management agency, imposes at the Idyllwild Transfer Station. The last time the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved these fees was June 2014. Resolution 2014-081 authorized the then transfer station management, Waste Management Inc., to continue to impose a…
Traffic flow on Highway 243 between Franklin Drive and Fire Station 23 (Pine Cove) will be slowed between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Caltrans will have maintenance crews removing a boulder near Lakeview Dr. Consequently, the up-bound lane on Highway 243 will be closed and only one lane available for…
Beginning Tuesday, May 7, Highway 74 will be open from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. for traffic between Mountain Center and Hemet, according to Caltrans Public Information Officer Terri Kasinga Monday afternoon. A pilot car escort will still be leading the traffic. This is one more hour than originally provided in April when the highway…
Search planned for May 18 A 55-year-old husband and father of four, John Sturkie, has been missing since Jan. 5. Searches for him along the Black Mountain Truck Trail have been scheduled for the Saturdays of May 18 and May 25. A lover of the outdoors, frequent camper and hunter, Sturkie left his Oceanside home…
Cal Fire/Riverside County Here are some of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County responded to recently. • April 24 — Medical aid, 12:19 p.m. Wrightwood Drive & Acorn Ln. • April 26 — Medical aid, 5:04 p.m. Hwy. 243 near Hwy. 74. Semi tipped over. • April 30 — Medical aid, 8:23 a.m. Humber Park. Idyllwild…
A woman and an infant were involved in a traffic collision the night of Monday, April 22. Caitlin Morones, 26, of Idyllwild, was driving a tan 1960 Studebaker westbound on Darryl Road when she applied the brakes, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer, and claimed the brakes failed. The Studebaker hit…
