Office remains open five days a week A contentious item on the Fern Valley Water District board’s action agenda last Friday was approved by a vote of three to one. At issue was an original proposal to adopt a 4/10 schedule for the district (four days a week, 10 hours a day, Monday through…
3.5 preliminary magnitude A shallow earthquake jolted Idyllwild at 8:14 a.m. Sunday June 18. The quake was centered 5 miles south-southwest of Idyllwild at a depth of 9.3 miles. This is the third “minor” earthquake to shake Idyllwild in 12 days, since Wednesday, June 7. Both earlier quakes were 3.2 magnitude, one the early…
Shawn Gooch, 39, of Idyllwild, was arrested in October and in November pleaded guilty to the charge of inflicting corporal injury with a prior conviction within seven years. Sentencing was deferred until Gooch enrolled and completed a residential substance abuse treatment program. Earlier this month, the Riverside County Probation Department reported to the Superior Court…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, June 11 to 17. Idyllwild • June 11 — Alarm call, 0:04 a.m. Seneca Dr. Handled by deputy. • June 11 — Found property, 2:23 p.m. N. Circle Dr. Handled by deputy. • June 12 — Alarm call,…
Non-water revenue up The directors of the Pine Cove Water District held a busy meeting Wednesday, June 14. Besides adopting a new budget, they addressed issues ranging from tenants at the Rocky Point radio site to work with Riverside County and monthly water loss. The fiscal year 2017-18 budget, which begins July 1, was…
By Kris Kirschbaum Correspondent The Idyllwild Fire Protection District Finance Committee met Wednesday, June 14, but without a full quorum, the committee met as an ad-hoc committee to review the budgets for May 2016-17 and review the 2017-18 budget. Chief Patrick Reitz was present for the first 15 minutes of the meeting and left for…
Fuelbreak work should begin in fall The County Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee was able, even briefly, to admire an accomplishment. The new Type 6 engine for Station 23 (Pine Cove) has arrived and is already in use. Just a year ago, the committee agreed with the Riverside County Fire Department’s proposal to…
(The following is from a Caltrans press release.) On Monday, June 12, the California Department of Transportation began repairing a sinkhole on other damaged areas to Highway 243 near Idyllwild-Pine Cove and Poppet Flats. Water runoff from snow and rain this past winter damaged a culvert and eroded slopes along the highway. Caltrans’ director issued…
Once standing-room-only for meetings, now no one is interested Peter Lent, former deputy director of Riverside County’s Office of Emergency Services, once noted that people begin to prepare for disasters after they happen — and then, of course, it’s too late. The Mountain Emergency Services Committee meets publicly in Idyllwild with one mission —…
Charles “Chic” Fojtik and wife Pamela were firework show devotees prior to moving to the Hill. Pamela, who died on Christmas Day 2016, missed the fireworks but loved living on the Hill after moving here from the South Bay in 2004. Fojtik, along with friend, gallery owner and former Art Alliance President Gary Kuscher, hope…
