Idyllwild News

The Tokens will headline the second installment of Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series tonight, Thursday, July 9, with Sandii Castleberry and Lily McCabe opening. The music starts at 6:05 p.m., with the headliners taking the stage at 7:00 p.m. The Tokens are the doo-wop greats remembered for “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and original tunes like…...

On Sunday, June 28, a pair of stranded climbers were rescued from the West Lark route on Tahquitz Rock by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s helicopter. High winds at elevation made the mission too dangerous for even RSO’s twin-engine Airbus H145 known as Rescue 9. “LA Sheriff Air 5 was subsequently requested to conduct the…...

Pine Cove residents have reported that water was leaking near a Pine Cove Water District main, just past CAL FIRE Station 23, where Caltrans is working on the Highway 243 Mill and Overlay project. PCWD General Manager tells us “While repaving, a leak was discovered and brought to our attention. We are aware of it…...

Many local residents had a hard time getting home from Palm Desert on Tuesday afternoon, when an estimated 20 minute delay for construction turned into a hard closure until after midnight, as Highway 74 between Pinyon Crest and Highway 371 became a crime scene. One reader tells us that they saw a tow truck attempt…...

The Idyllwild Master Chorale, under the direction of Dwight “Buzz” Holmes, will finish their fiftieth season with their Maytime Spring Jubilee at Stephens Recital Hall on the Idyllwild Arts Academy campus. The wide glass doors will be open to allow seating indoors or outdoors. The music will include settings of poems by Robert Frost by…...

On May 8, just before Mother’s Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a first-in-the-nation program to provide free diapers to all new babies born in California. The State will be in partnership with Baby2Baby to help new mothers in the beginning of their child’s infancy. Beginning this summer, every newborn delivered in a participating California hospital…...