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…
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….
