The committee of Forest Folk did their homework and came well prepared to seek support for a community garden from the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee. What they had not counted on was the support the County Economic Development Agency proffered. EDA has experience in planning and creating community gardens. They offered to bring…
In an addition to its monthly board meeting, Pine Cove Water District directors toured the new pumping infrastructure installed at the highway wells off Highway 243, south of the district office. The new pumps will provide a 400-gallon per minute flow from Dutch Flat to the tanks atop Rocky Point, which will give the district…
Representatives from the Morongo Tribe of Mission Indians will be coming to Idyllwild on April 2, according to Idyllwild Community Recreation Council Director Cheryl Vladika. She has applied to the tribe for a $10,000 grant to staff the Idyllwild Skate Park. Tribal representatives want to inspect the ICRC’s Skate Park, Vladika reported, prior to deciding…
Lisa Draper’s fourth grade students transport an “injured person” to the triage area during a Mountain Disaster Preparedness exercise held on Wednesday morning. The students from left to right are: Kate Taylor, Olivia Hernandez, David Cohen, Maggie McKimson, Emma Johnston, Destiny Mikroulis, Pierce Pramuka and Sidney Tschuor.
Directors of the Fern Valley Water District adopted three new personnel policies that changed retirement and health benefits for new hires and the requirements for what employees must pay into their own retirement. At the March 16 board meeting, directors voted to reduce retirement benefits from the existing 2.7 percent of salary per years served…
Idyllwild Elementary School is now registering children for the kindergarten fall 2012 session …
February 1962, John and Teresa Friemoth arrived in Idyllwild …
Amid its discussion of the budget for fiscal year 2012-13, which begins June 30, the County Service Area 38 Advisory Committee thought that county officials had granted approval with a long-standing effort to purchase a new fire engine for Station 23 and the Pine Cove community. However on Thursday, Bill Brown, County Service Area Manager…
Monday morning and all is well in Idyllwild. The roads and highways were cleared yesterday and this morning sun is appearing behind the mountain. The forecast for today is “Scattered snow showers before 11am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 42. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation…
Two vehicles collided head on Saturday morning, March 17 in Idyllwild causing multiple injuries to the vehicles’ occupants, two with moderate and three with minor injuries. The collision occurred at about 7:43 a.m. at the intersection of Marian View Drive and Highway 243. Idyllwild Fire Protection District personnel responded. The injured were transported to off-Hill…
