Idyllwild Water District officials go to Sacramento
Earlier this month, officials from the Idyllwild Water District (IWD) met with state water officials in their Sacramento offices. They were pursuing their effort to secure funding for a tertiary recycled water treatment plant, according to Board President Allan Morphett. The treated water would be delivered to customers for irrigation purposes.
While the Water Resources Control staff was encouraging, IWD...
This town knows how to party
To please the surprisingly diverse character of Idyllwild, local businesses will offer a potpourri of New Year’s Eve events. Festive choices include Las Vegas-style drag and burlesque at the Rustic, a Cheers-like neighborhood gathering at Idyll Awhile, prix fixe dinners and entertainment at a number of our finest eateries and a free party at the American Legion Post 800....
Family mentoring group completes training
Six community members completed a family mentoring training program, which Allan Morphett facilitated. Nine began the training in September and six finished this month.
The Rotary Club of Idyllwild paid for all training materials. The non-profit organization Family Promise (www.familypromise.org) developed the training course which is designed to train mentors to assist economically vulnerable families. Mentors work with families...
Idyllwild ice rink almost open
Warm temperatures, generator break downs, Freon, wind, pine needles and stubborn rink surfaces plagued opening ...
Another Point of View: Light trespass or pollution
Editor’s note: On Dec. 20, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on the its proposed ordinance regulating nighttime light trespass, light falling across property lines.
The Board voted unanimously to approved the ordinance.
Hill resident Jeff Smith attended the hearing and offered the following comments.
The ordinance states that inadequately shielded outdoor lighting results in the waste of...
2011’s top Idyllwild stories: Part 1
The Town Crier looks back at the headlines that made the biggest local news ...
Creature Corner: Dec. 29, 2011
Happy New Year from the many four-leggeds, and two, at the ARF house. If our pets could talk, what New Year’s resolution do you think they would have?
U.S. Forest Service 2012 budget passed
After a quarter of the federal fiscal year has transpired, President Barack Obama signed Public Law 112-74, which authorizes funding for federal agencies through Sept. 30, 2012, the end of the federal fiscal year.
Congress passed the appropriations bill on Dec. 17. Six days later, on Dec. 23, the President signed it.
Although funding for the Forest Service’s Wildland Fire...
A filmmaker describes making his first indie film
Andrew Fisher, writer and director of this year’s “Buttons in the Ground,” an Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema featurette ...
In a fast sport, Idyllwild skeleton athlete Salter keeps her head up
Salter spends hours every day preparing to use and to risk her skeleton ...