If you’re on the corner of North Circle and Cedar at 9:15 on a Sunday morning, you’re in for an experience. The bell of the Idyllwild Community Presbyterian Church demands the attention of all. It peals in 12 bongs, so cleanly and so loudly you’ll think it must be an electronic bell with a huge…
Negotiations about Idyllwild’s emergency radio station, WNKI, between the Mile High Radio Club and the Idyllwild Fire Department have reached an impasse, according to MHRC President Bill Tell. Since Bob McCullough retired as WNKI’s manager in the fall of 2012, the position has been vacant, although volunteers have kept it functioning. But MHRC offered to…
Editor: First I want to tell you what a great job you are doing with the paper. I do still come up there several times a month, love it and hope my kids do the same as the grandkids get old enough to hike. I also watch golf with friends every Sunday and I’m pleased…
I have often been struck by the similarities between fire protection — prevention and suppression — and public health. Both fields are tasked with preventing or containing catastrophes — wildfires and epidemics — that can overwhelm the normal protections of daily life. Both deal with an enemy that is a part of the natural world…
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, the Boards of Supervisors for Riverside and San Bernardino counties held a joint meeting to discuss several issues affecting both counties. During the session, they heard from staff on health-care issues, implementation of AB 10, which addresses the shift of prisoners from the state to counties, and Ontario Airport. Before the…
The U.S. Forest Service has extended the State Forestry Grant to Riverside County, Gregg Bratcher, Cal Fire unit forester for Riverside County, announced last week. The grant was scheduled to expire Sept. 30, but Cal Fire requested a one-year extension. About $450,000 will be available for fire protection on the Hill during the next year….
Robin Williams’ suicide has opened the door for more of us to open up about a dark subject. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s revelation that she suffers from depression is admirable, though running a department that large and important from home while she deals with this challenge is not doable. As I said, I…
Editor: Dr Know It All doesn’t mind being in the middle of a controversy. He is used to people with a contradictory sense of humor. It should be clear that the Dr abhors violence. When he says avoid “maiming” tourists and resist “smacking annoying children,” he means it. What the Dr does mind is having…
Nearly seven months after two men were arrested for a triple homicide that occurred eight years ago, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all the charges against Robert Lars Pape and Cristin Conrad Smith. In March, a grand jury indicted Pape and Smith, but because he was under 17 years old at the…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, Sept. 19, golf tournament in conjunction with the semi-final round of playoffs for the club championship. Play was at the Temecula Creek Golf Club on the Creek to Stonehouse courses. It was a beautiful day and the course was in…
