With the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home order in place for an unknown amount of time, Idyllwild restaurant owners are trying to keep their businesses afloat. Our restaurants are hanging on by a thread and are holding onto positivity the best they can but they need the community support. Jennifer Fey, owner of Atomic Cow Creamery, has felt…
We’ve all noticed the long lines in front of our local markets in recent weeks in order to adhere to social distancing. In addition, employees are wearing masks and gloves. Many only know that they are having to wait in line and have no idea what’s happening behind the scenes. While people wait patiently, essential…
The Idyllwild-Pine Cove area had one confirmed COVID-19 case as of the 1 p.m. April 3 Riverside University Health System-Public Health website update. On April 6, that number increased to two. The county also held a press conference on April 3 to let people know the four things that need to happen to flatten the…
A series of quakes shook the mountain Friday evening and continued throughout the weekend. The first in the series, a magnitude 4.9 east-southeast of Anza at 10.6 km depth, occurred at 6:53 p.m. That first quake was followed by four more: 3.6 magnitude at 6:54 p.m., a 2.9 and 3.0 magnitude quakes at 6:55 p.m….
With so much negativity going on right now, there is some positive news in our community. Volunteers have dusted off their sewing machines and started making masks and facial coverings, donating them to those who need them the most. “I originally started thinking about making them for a friend who works in a NICU,” said…
By Samantha HalburnContributed April 15 each year signifies the ever so dreaded “Tax Day” for those who may owe anyway. This year, due to the onslaught of COVID-19, our government has made many new changes to our “normal,” including the postponement of Tax Day to July 15, 2020. But what does that mean for you?…
By Marty KriegerHead of Family History Center food distribution in Idyllwild Monthly Food Distribution will be held on Tuesday, April 7 outside the wood fence of Town Hall. All cars need to line up on River Drive toward Town Hall. If someone is picking up for someone else, they need to have the new…
A bill for economic relief finally passed Congress. Here’s the thing though … this bill provides more relief to big corporations than small businesses ($377 billion of the $2 trillion, but wait … there’s more) and individuals (approximately $560 billion between cash and unemployment payments, according to a story by NPR). It isn’t $500 billion…
By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service The Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed Obamacare, turns 10 this month [March], and what a tumultuous run the health care law has had! The law’s rocky existence hasn’t smoothed out yet and it faces additional scrutiny by the U.S. Supreme Court next fall, the result of more legal…
By Mary RiderContributed There is scientific debate on whether human life began on the savannas or woodlands of Africa. What’s not in contention is presence in either landscape provokes a rapid recovery response for human stress. Both settings offer open spaces with the right ratio of light to shadow in a calm but not…
