The Idyllwild Community Center board is hosting a community meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, April 4, at the Rustic Theatre. “We want to make certain everyone in the community knows when the project will start and how it benefits the community and what will be part of Phase 1,” stated Janice Lyle, chair of the…
About nine months ago, Cal Fire filed its lawsuit in state court seeking some $8.5 million in damages for Cal Fire’s various costs due to the Mountain Fire of July 15, 2013. But the federal government, which, through the U.S. Forest Service, expended the lion’s share of monies owing to the blaze, has yet to…
At the next Idyllwild Fire Protection District board meeting, April 26, the finance committee expects to have a report and recommendation on a possible new tax measure, said finance committee Chair and Commissioner Nancy Layton. The finance committee has been discussing the substance and amount of possible tax increase for more than month. It has…
The multi-year project to replace the Hurkey Creek Bridge on Highway 74 in Garner Valley is nearing completion. Caltrans estimates the new bridge will reopen to two-lane traffic in mid to late April, said Joy Schneider, Caltrans public information officer. Planning to replace the 1930s-era bridge, the narrowest point on Highway 74, began in 2012….
Jacqueline “Jackie” Rodriguez, Town Hall recreation director, will begin maternity leave sometime in the near future. Rodriguez took over as recreation director for the county-managed program in May 2015. Kyla Brown, recreation bureau chief for Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District, current manager of Idyllwild’s recreation program, said they are in the process…
Concurrent with the first public meetings of the new County Service Area 36 Advisory Council, management of CSA 36 recreation also will shift beginning July 1, 2016. The Economic Development Agency will have overall responsibility for all matters within the CSA 36 purview. But current recreation managers, the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls Monday to Sunday, March 14 to 20: Idyllwild • March 14 — Medical aid. • March 14 — Trash or rubbish fire, contained. • March 15 — Medical aid. • March 15 — Power line down. • March 15 — Special type of incident,…
On February 26, 2016, Administrative Law Judge Eric Sawyer issued his proposed decision in the matter of the accusation against James Reyes, former paramedic and captain with IFPD, who had been terminated by Chief Patrick Reitz in July 2014. Judge Sawyer found on the evidence that Chief Reitz “abused his discretion in deciding to terminate…
The finance committee of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District is still grappling with how big a tax measure should be and the source of the new funding. At its meeting last week, the committee discussed two separate revenue sources and committee alternate member Mark Lonsbury and Fire Capt. Mark LaMont discussed the cost and needed…
Idyllwild Water District General Manager Tom Lynch says an individual director has no right to request an item be placed on the agenda. This was in response to Director Steve Kunkle’s request to place the director’s compensation on the IWD agenda for last week. “A board member has no power to set the future agenda…
