Three cars parked on the east side Highway 243, just south of Pine Cove Road, were struck Saturday morning around 8:30 a.m. when Soojin Woo, 32, of Buena Park lost control of her 2008 Toyota Camry. Officer T. Kahill of the California Highway Patrol said Woo was traveling at between 50 and 60 miles…
In the darkness of early Saturday morning, Sept. 8, Cabazon Station deputies responded to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway regarding a report of lost hikers. On the morning before, two hikers, identified as Preston and Carol Crow of Wichita Falls, Texas, told friends they were going to spend the day hiking at Mt. San Jacinto…
Propositions on California ballots are often confusing. With misleading titles and convoluted wording, Proposition 40 does nothing to alleviate that confusion. Proposition 40 is an attempt to use California’s referendum process to redraw the new state Senate boundaries. The Citizens Redistricting Commission is the body now responsible for drawing those boundaries. California Senate and Assembly…
The information tables were set up and ready to go at the MDP Shake Out! drill on Saturday morning …
Tuesday evening, Sept. 11, around 7 p.m., two Pine Cove residents discovered a body near Highway 243 and Jameson Dr. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was investigating. They call for a coroner’s official.
Chief Gregg Bratcher joined CAL FIRE from the private sector and three years later is assigned as the agency’s forester for the San Jacinto Mountains. Bratcher attended the August Mountain Area Safety Taskforce and will lead it at the November meeting. He has replaced battalion Chief Bill Weiser, who is the new chief of the…
Artist Colin Garth Smith talks about his work with Mike Ahern during the Saturday opening reception for his show at Honey Bunns & Joe Bakery …
On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Friends of the Idyllwild Library will present a performance of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Familiar to Idyllwild audiences, Duffy Hudson is bringing Steinbeck’s classic to the Hill. The Friends of the Library feel honored that he again appears. Many considered Steinbeck, a Nobel Prize-winning author, the best portrayer…
Mieko Ouchi’s “The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)” is “so beautiful a period piece with lush beautiful layers, it’s a stylizing of the 18th century” …
The Hemet Unified School District directors appointed Barry Kayrell as its next District superintendent. The vote was unanimous 7-0. Kayrell is currently the superintendent of Beaumont Unified School District, but will start at Hemet on Oct. 1. His starting salary will be $205,000 annually.
