With minimal discussion Tuesday morning, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission unanimously adopted the proposed agreement with San Jacinto city to form a joint powers authority. The agreement between the two agencies will create an agency to serve as the San Jacinto Fire Department. The draft agreement specifies that the city will be responsible for…
The city of San Jacinto placed the proposed Joint Powers Agreement with the Idyllwild Fire Protection District on its June 7 agenda. City Manager Tim Hults, in a memorandum to the council, said they had two basic options. The first was to continue to contract with Riverside County for fire and emergency services. This might…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls Monday to Sunday, May 16 to 29. Idyllwild • May 16 — Two medical aids. • May 19 — Walk-in medical aid. • May 19 — Medical aid, Saunders Meadow Rd. • May 20 — Walk-in medical aid. • May 20 — Medical aid,…
Joe Aklufi, who was arrested May 17, along with six other former Beaumont city officials and was the former legal counsel for Idyllwild Water District, has had his arraignment moved to Aug. 19. He is being tried for six felony counts of embezzlement. At a preliminary hearing Thursday, May 26, Judge Becky Dugan set a…
Directors of the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District approved the annual $75 fee for water availability imposed on its Improvement District A (Garner Valley) customers. The board approved Resolution 762 at its April 21 meeting and set 3 p.m. Thursday, July 21, as the date for a public hearing on the charge. The board will…
Idyllwild House Publishing Co. Ltd., and owners Jack and Becky Clark, publishers of the Idyllwild Town Crier, were sued April 21 in Riverside County Superior Court by J. Lee Pentrack, aka J.L. Pentrack, a former employee and joint venturer on Palm to Pines Magazine, whose publication was suspended when Pentrack resigned in January. Pentrack alleges…
Two incidents, one a DUI arrest, and a second, a motorcycle crash, occurred on Hill roads during this past week. At 8:01 p.m. Thursday, May 26, Dennis Fredrickson, 80, of Del Mar, was driving his silver 2006 Lexus sedan westbound on highway 74, 500 feet east of Keen Camp Road when, on a left curve,…
While not unusually long, the May 24 session of the Idyllwild Fire commission was busy. Not only did the commissioners approve the district’s creating a joint fire authority with San Jacinto City, they enacted resolutions to raise their ambulance service rates, to authorize collection of the current (not the proposed) parcel or unit fee and…
On Monday, May 23, 2016, Nasir David Powell, 18, was arraigned and sentenced on a five-count amended complaint in Riverside County Superior Court before Judge Mark A. Mandio. He pleaded guilty to all five counts involving sexual activities with minors, occurring late in 2015 and earlier this year. Powell was arrested on March 17, and…
On Friday, May 20, 2016, Walter Farrell Treen, 53, also known as Fred Lopez, of the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation in Mountain Center, was arraigned in Riverside County Superior Court in Murrieta on one felony charge of violation of Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a)(1), felony assault with a firearm. He also was charged with…
