Sometime in the future, your electric provider may be Riverside County rather than Southern California Edison. At its Aug. 23 meeting, the Board of Supervisors authorized the county executive to pursue investigating the possibility of establishing a community-choice aggregation program. In 2002, the state authorized local governments to procure or develop electrical power for themselves,…
60 years ago – 1956 Idyllwild School registered 90 youngsters in kindergarten to seventh grades. The prior week, 290 students attended the first day of the new school year. 55 years ago – 1961 Tahquitz Lake Estates announced the opening of a tract on the Dutch Flat property and near Foster Lake. Lots were priced…
At the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s commission meeting last week, Fire Chief Patrick Reitz said the Riverside County Registrar of Voters has accepted the IWD’s proposed parcel fee increase. It will be included on the November presidential election ballot as Measure W. Commissioner Nancy Layton, chair of the Education and Dissemination Committee, reported that a…
At its Aug. 23 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a change to the days the local grinding facility is open. Beginning Friday, Sept. 2, the facility will be open three days per week — all during the week and no weekend days. The new schedule will be from 8 a.m. to 4…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Aug. 21 to 27. Idyllwild • Aug. 21 — Unknown trouble, Pine Dell Rd. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 21 — Assist other department, 25000 block of Hwy. 243. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 21 — 911 hangup…
Recent torrential rains and flooding in Louisiana, the second-poorest state in the country, have again severely impacted children and the elderly. And, to worsen matters, some families who lost their New Orleans homes during Hurricane Katrina, then relocated to Baton Rouge, lost their homes again during recent flooding. Art therapist and Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold…
Executive Director Edwina Scott and President Chris Kramer of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, want to revise and bring the Hill’s last Community Wildfire Protection Plan up to date. However, the plethora of fires throughout the state has made it difficult to include the local fire agencies in this effort. Nevertheless, as fall and…
The attorney for Robert Pape, 28, requested to re-schedule his preliminary hearing to Wednesday, Sept. 7. This is the same date co-defendant Cristin Smith, 27, has his preliminary hearing scheduled. Both men have been arrested as suspects for the 2006 triple murder of Jon Hayward, Vicki Friedli, and Vicki’s daughter, Becky Friedli, in Pinyon Pines….
Deputy Mike Vasquez, public information officer at the Hemet Station’s Riverside County Sheriff’s office, confirmed Wednesday, Aug. 24, that the body found by a hiker on Sunday, Aug. 21, is that of Josephene Youssef, 71, of Pinyon. Youssef had been missing since June 7 when she went for a walk from her family’s home in…
