CAL FIRE officials are cautiously optimistic today about the diminishing future of the Buck Fire. Most of today the fire laid down, according to the Public Information Officer Chief Rick Vogt, a Battalion Chief with San Marcos Fire. Both Vogt and Riverside Fire Chief John Hawkins were confident that the Buck Fire did not spread…
Saturday morning members of the Idyllwild Art Alliance, the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council and artist Dore Capitani (center back row) came together for the dedication of the his sign for the recently built playground. Local metal sculptor Dore Capitani created the sign out of cut metal with powder coating color and the Idyllwild Art Alliance donated it. Above, front row, are Seth White, Joel White, Emily White, ICRC, with daughter Abbey, Claudia Posey, ICRC, with son Brody, Lea Deesing, president of the Art Alliance, Dawn Sonnier, ICRC, with daughter Katelyn, and Gary Kuscher, Art Alliance vice president. Back row Bryan Talent AAI board member, Capitani and Scott Fisher, AAI board member.
After missing the cut in the True South Open at the end of last month, Brendan Steele returned to action two weeks ago, scoring a tie for 8th place in the Reno-Tahoe Open. With modified Stableford scoring in effect, he scored 6-10-7-7 — 30 to win $83,000 in official prize money. The tournament was won…
The last week of regular season games began with Creekstone Inn taking on Pacific Slope Tree Co., who took a slim lead into the fourth inning. Then Creekstone Inn put together a big inning as Dawn Sonnier and Jon Miller each got key hits. Creekstone Inn won 13-6 and wrapped up first place for the…
Life goes on and nothing changes. Two, three, four, or perhaps five grand juries will do the trick. Property tax funded radios, and heart monitor links never purchased. Really? No problem, Stone just doubled the Pine Cove and mountain property tax funded contract, maybe that will buy the monitors, hmmm. The Pine Cove parcel tax…
Photo essay by Jenny Kirchner of Tuesday, the first day of the Buck Fire. To read current updates on the fire, click here.
UPDATE: At 6 p.m. all mandatory evacuations were lifted. Residents with identification were allowed to return to previously evacuated areas. Earlier this evening, Anza Electric Cooperative announced that power was restored to all homes affected by an outage caused by the fire. Officials are calling lightning the cause of a massive wild land fire…
Connie Kupka, violin, Edith Orloff, piano, David Speltz, cello and David Peck, clarinet played Peter Schickele’s music written for those four instruments at the first concert of the Distinguished Artist Chamber Music at Idyllwild Arts last week.
Brian Bromberg, headliner for the 19th Jazz in the Pines, has taken bass playing where no player has gone before, firmly establishing it as a melody instrument. He credits an epiphany that came early in his career with allowing him to find his musical calling and path. “I started playing drums as a kid,”…
Ask any inveterate rock climber and they will tell you the sport is thrilling and exhilarating, but it also demands respect …
