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…
Capt. Mike Alvarez of the California Highway Patrol’s San Gorgonio office was at the April Pine Cove Property Owners Association meeting. During the meeting, some members discussed their adventures taking the detour to Hemet through Anza in the early morning. Highway 371 tended to have less enforcement and, therefore, more dangerous driving episodes. CHP posted…
The Local Review Board of the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District met briefly Thursday, April 25. The board discussed the vacant lot on North Circle Drive adjacent to La Casita restaurant. At the January meeting, a member of the public asked the board about the property’s future since it had recently sold. The property is within…
April showers fell on the Hill as the month ended. But these were kinder and gentler than the February downpours, and many April flowers have already bloomed. At the U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station, 0.4 of an inch was recorded Monday. This brings the total recorded rainfall at Keenwild to 28.27 inches since Oct….
Broad view of recreation and desire for more participation Chad Taylor is the newest member of the County Service Area 36 (Idyllwild and Fern Valley) Advisory Committee. Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington presented Taylor’s nomination at the Board of Supervisors’ April 16 meeting and he was unanimously approved. Taylor and his wife, Ellen,…
After more than a decade with the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, Executive Director Edwina Scott is resigning this month. During her tenure, which began in 2004, was interrupted in 2005 and resumed in 2009, she brought millions of dollars in federal and state grants to the community, and oversaw the preparation and development of…
An AMS commercial paving truck towing a trailer with a pavement grinder overturned on Highway 243 about 5 p.m. Friday, April 26, as it was heading southbound. The incident happened about 1 to 1.2 miles north of Mountain Center (past the U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station toward Idyllwild). The fuel tank spilled about 60…
