The nascent Idyllwild Fire Auxiliary held its second meeting and selected temporary officers. Charles Wix agreed to serve as president. The other officers are Christina Edwards, vice president, Rick Foster, secretary, and Nancy Layton is the treasurer. The group devoted time to reviewing a draft of the articles of incorporation and discussing possible Auxiliary projects….
Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer accepted two awards at the Hemet Unified School District Trustees’ meeting on Tuesday night, Feb. 5. One is the Governing Board Academic Achievement Award for the third year in a row and the other was the Attendance Award.
County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee Chair Bob Schraff resigned from the committee on Wednesday, Feb. 6, leaving the board with only one regularly attending member, Reba Coulter. The office of 3rd District Supervisors Jeff Stone says there are no current plans to fill the committe. Both Schraff and committee member Mike Frietas, who seldom…
Marcos Souza Melo (nickname “Spider”) has been doing Brazilian Capoeira (a martial art) for 24 years and has recently begun adult and kid classes at Town Hall …
“Residents of the mountain community of Idyllwild have spoken, and ARF’s [Animal Rescue Friends] executive board has listened. By popular demand, Mayor Max’s term of office has been extended for another year,” Janice Murasko announced in an email Saturday.
Four more Goldspotted oak borer-infested trees have been identified in Idyllwild. When authorities identified the first infested tree here in November, they expressed hope that it was an isolated incident. Authorities no longer believe the outbreak is limited. Since tree one was on Highway 243, it appears to have been almost certainly infested from firewood…
A significant step toward realizing the Idyllwild Community Center and the Butterfield Family Center was taken Monday, Feb. 11. The Mount San Jacinto Community Center board has been reformulated, as David Butterfield said last month. The current members of the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council, the operational entity, under the legal umbrella of the MSJCC, appointed…
Idyllwild residents Charles and Stephanie Johnston welcomed Jacob T. Johnston into the world as Idyllwild’s first baby of 2013. Jacob made his debut at 4:35 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27 at Desert Regional Hospital in Palm Springs. Jacob weighed in at seven pounds, three ounces and measured 19 inches in length. Jacob is Stephanie’s first…
The Idyllwild Garden Club is joining with other forces on and off the Hill to take a proactive part in battling the Goldspotted oak borer infestation. Club President Toni Berthelotte says that many of the club members will be manning phones and placing call backs to answer questions and give valuable information to callers. The…
Welcome Kayanna Warren to the Hill. She is the new forester for the San Jacinto Ranger District. Warren is a 2013 graduate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has been an ecology and biology geek since grade school, she said proudly. “We [she and her parents] lived 25 miles from Portland…
