Going into last week’s Wyndham Classic in Greensboro, N.C., Brendan Steele was outside the top 125 players in FedEx Cup Points and about 36 points shy of what he would need to make that the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup. After a disappointing Thursday, the native Idyllwilder was even in danger of missing…
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Jeremy Teeguarden reported on Town Hall Adult softball for the week of Aug. 13. On Monday, Aug. 13, Pacific Slope Tree Company and Ajax played the first game of a three-game series. The game was a defensive battle the whole way. In the early innings, Pete Holzman lead Pacific Slope with…
I guess the “Angel of the Year” awarded me has fallen and lost her wings. We continued our fund-raising for ARF by gathering money from donation boxes left in several places. However, when we entered ARF House, last week, with these money in hand, I was greeted with: “We are no longer accepting donations.” Wow!…
I love visiting Idyllwild and I heard they were electing a four-legged mayor as a fundraiser for ARF. I thought this was a great idea! After the election, I saw this terrible article attacking the winner and his campaign manager (Phyllis Mueller) so I did a little research. This was a fundraiser designed to generate…
Marsha Lytle, chair of the 19th Annual Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines, is tired but excited about the 2012 edition of the local jazz festival. For example, she is looking forward to Mary Stalling’s performance on Saturday, Aug. 25, in the Barn. “I haven’t seen her in about 35 years. The last time was…
The Idyllwild Fire Commission discussed its budget for fiscal year 2012-13, which began July 1, and approved a new contract with the Idyllwild Career Fire Association. The commission plans a public hearing and approval of the proposed budget at its Aug. 28 meeting. The total budget equals about $1,663,700 and balances revenue and expenditures….
Mrs. Longbrook with her delighted kindergarten-1st grade class on the first day of school …
On Monday, Aug. 20 Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a second search of a home in the 26800 block of Highway 243, near Idyllwild School that led to the arrest of two men. Law enforcement had previously searched the same home in an earlier operation on March 28. Deputies arrived in five unmarked and…
Brandon Opliger (son of Rocky Opliger, retired US Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest) in the left photo, taken approximately in 1989. Opliger was in an IFPD engine. His mother Lori (Friemoth) Richter worked for IFPD and Brandon was four or five years old. The right-hand photo is Brandon now, age 26, employed with the U.S. Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest, on the Palomar Hotshot Crew, out of Oak Grove Station.
