Past Tense: October 13, 2016
55 years ago - 1961
Bonnar Blong, local game manager, reported the extreme drought had caused a drastic drop in the number of coyotes, bobcats...
Past Tense: Sept. 22, 2011
60 years ago - 1951
The crew drilling well no. 2 for the Fern Valley Mutual Water Co. were experiencing their toughest assignment in years....
Past Tense: March 5, 2015
65 years ago - 1950
Ernie Maxwell and Ralph Accardi, conducting the snow survey, got lost near Hidden Lake. But Maxwell declared, “Each year we...
Past Tense: Sept. 6, 2012
55 years ago - 1957
Pine Dell Estates was a new development in town, just below the village on National Forest Highway .
50 years ago...
Past Tense: Oct. 18, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce directors voted to “reforest” the San Jacinto Mountains with Sequoia Giganteas.
65 years ago - 1953
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Past Tense: April 11, 2019
The November 1965 storms caused this wash-out on Highway 243 near the current wash-out near Bay Tree Spring. The road was...
Past Tense: January 6, 2022
70 years ago - 1952Skiing was fair to good. There was plenty of snow above 7,000 feet.
65 years...
Past Tense: Sept. 20, 2012
60 years ago - 1952
Enrollment when Idyllwild Elementary School opened in the fall was 72 students.
55 years ago - 1957
Deer season opened on a...
Past Tense: August 4, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
At a joint Chamber and Lions Club committee meeting, members announced plans for a community recreation program the Lions would...
Past Tense: July 18, 2013
65 years ago - 1948
Ernie Maxwell, in a demur, bathing suit of the 1890s complete with black stockings, limped into third place in the...