The U.S. Forest Service recently issued a contract for new next-generation air tankers, which will begin the effort to rebuild its air tanker fleet. The agency is working to bring all seven next-generation air tankers into service over the next year. Nearly a year ago, Forest Service Director Tom Tidwell told Congress that the current…
Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner’s only child, opens Eduardo Santiago’s third Author Series. She’ll discuss her autobiographical book, “Detour: A Hollywood Story” (Arbor House, 1988). The book offers a look inside her storybook youth as the child of one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and a single incident that dramatically changed the story. Crane remembers…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild is on a mission to enhance Idyllwild’s reputation for art by establishing a new marketing niche as a public arts town. Planning is underway to permanently install 15 full-size aluminum deer in 10 public locations throughout the village. Local artists will use acrylics to paint each deer with its own…
Last week Brendan Steele missed only his third cut on the PGA Tour this season. He shot 74-71 — 145 at The Players Championship in Florida last week, missing the cut by only one stroke. One double bogey suffered on the No. 4 hole on Friday was enough to do him in. Still, he was…
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I am enclosing a copy of my letter to the Assembly Judiciary Committee generally in opposition to AB 642 now before that committee. AB 642 would allow an exclusively web-based publication, with a staff of one spending time in Idyllwild, to qualify as a newspaper of general circulation in competition with you. I have always…
Young love, the Roaring Twenties, the French Riviera …
The Amgen Tour of California is in its eighth year …
David Jerome, secretary of the moribund Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce, called a meeting of the general membership on Monday, May 13, to begin the process of disposing of Chamber assets. The Chamber no longer has a board of directors authorized to act on behalf of the membership. With the same indifference that characterized an April…
The Pine Cove underground storage tank project, which the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health has been monitoring since 1994, is nearly closed. In the absence of any public comments on its notice of proposed closing, the department authorized Frey Environmental to pull its monitoring wells at the Pine Cove Market. This work was completed…
