Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, May 16, golf tournament at the Palm Desert Resort Country Club. It was a hot spring day in the desert, with temperatures climbing to about 107 degrees. The course was in great shape. John LoGiudice (course handicap 24) took first…
Editor: To all residents and their agents who rent out weekend homes here in Idyllwild: Can you please impress upon your clients that people live all around the homes you are renting and their privacy should be respected? As I write, some weekend renters in the home above us are playing music as loud as…
We had a wonderful Goldspotted oak borer kick-off lunch this past Friday. The Fire Safe Council, with fantastic (and delicious) help from the Pine Cove Water District, sponsored a beautiful outdoor lunch behind the Mountain Resource Center to thank the volunteers who search the community for trees the Goldspotted oak borer infects. In addition to…
“In my 33 years of education, Lenore [Sazer] is one of the very best teachers, if not the best, I’ve ever had the privilege to work with,” Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer wrote in an email. Sazer, after 24 years of teaching and serving the Hill, retired last week. She has no immediate grand plans….
Oh joy, oh joy, the move-in is over, the organizing is not yet, but the space we now have at the new TC building affords the opportunity to unpack without tripping over boxes. We have pictures and all those awards to hang, technical and electrical glitches still here and there, but most importantly, the signage….
Editor: As the drought continues, Idyllwild will suffer increasingly severe water shortages. The many policies regarding water conservation are sound and should be continued: eliminating outdoor landscape watering, and low-water-use toilets, showers, appliances etc. But we need to address increasing our available supply. In any winter storm, most of the water drains out of our…
The recent power outages due to high winds or scheduled maintenance should remind us, even today, not to take the centralized electrical grid for granted. Actually, until 1923, Idyllwild had no access to it at all, which was hardly a fatal drawback. My family vacationed comfortably at our cabin without electricity for 75 years until…
In a product warranty scenario that may resonate with many residents, local Sonny Swerkes purchased from a Lowe’s store in Hemet a deck-coating product, Restore, manufactured by Rust-Oleum. Rust-Oleum describes its Restore in this way: “Deck & Concrete Restore 10X is a durable coating product formulated to resurface most wooden and composite decks while providing…
