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Soroptimist International of Idyllwild is a women’s service organization that maintains a visible presence in Idyllwild through numerous community activities and scholarships to local girls and women. One of this year’s events was a Celebration of Women and the Arts, held to raise funds for Soroptimist International’s current global mission of ending human trafficking, a form of modern day...

The San Jacinto Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest is initiating a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis for the Garner Allotment Management Plan and Term Grazing Permit project. This is the third of four Garner Valley allotments being reviewed. The Garner Allotment Management Plan and Term Grazing Permit project, which would authorize 1,800 head months, which is...

I like to think I grew up in a world made of plants. As a child, I spent most of my time up a tree, tunneling through the underbrush, or in the garden. My mother and father were always outside, working together to make things grow and trying their hardest to get the three of us kids to help them weed, water, or whatever. When I was younger, my job in the garden was to plant the carrots each year. My mother planned it so that they would be ready to harvest around my birthday in August, thus showing me that the greatest gifts one can receive are those from the earth.

What if we could personally participate in research that might help determine factors that cause or prevent cancer? What if our involvement, and that research, ultimately leads to the elimination of cancer as a major health problem for this and future generations? What if we could make it so just one family never has to hear the words “you...

Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, May 14 to 20, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance May 14 — Cover assignment, highways 243 and 74, Mountain Center. May 15 — Medical aid, Riverside County Playground. May 16 — Medical aid, South Circle Drive, Idyllwild. May 16 — Medical aid, Saunder’s Meadow Road, Idyllwild. May 16 — Walk-in medical aid. May...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown released the revision of his January budget proposal for fiscal 2012-13, which begins on July 1. Unfortunately, the state’s financial conditions have not improved during the past four months. Although Brown stressed that this budget situation is much better than a year ago, he also admitted that the projected budget problem of $15.7 billion is...

Leaving the confines of academia, Idyllwild Arts student songwriters, part of a new Music Department program this school year, will appear at Fern Valley Corner’s Creek House Restaurant. Songwriters Will Whitaker, Nicky Martin, Elias Sedlmayr, Alex Keller and Corwin Zekley, assisted by Idyllwild Arts’ award-winning jazz combo pianist Luca Jacaruso take the stage at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 25...