At its May 23 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s commission approved a resolution requesting that Riverside County grant the district an advance of its December property tax receipts. The request is for $400,000, the same amount as the 2016 request. The district and county have agreed to an advance for each fall since 2011….
The fastest growing sport in the United States Despite the peculiar name, pickleball is nothing to sneeze at or derisively dismiss. It is the fastest-growing sport in America. Since its founding in 1965 by Washington State Congressman Joel Pritchard, the paddle- and net-based sport has exploded in popularity. It is played in all 50 states…
Smoke wafting through the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains Wednesday morning is coming from fires in the Sequoia and Los Padres National Forests, not a new, nearby fire, according to the Forest Services’s San Bernardino National Forest division. The Tweet from SB National Forest: Seeing/smelling smoke in the Mtns and Valleys? That is smoke…
The Fourth of July laser show on Tahquitz Rock was a first. And now it’s history. Intended as a memorial to a wife who loved fireworks, the show sparked comments positive and negative from Idyllwild residents. For many, especially those who posted on Facebook, the laser show was a spectacular success, a first-time home run….
Motorcycles were involved in two crashes on Hill roads over the last week. At 2:40 a.m. Sunday, July 2, Jeffrey Williams, 61, of San Marcos, was riding his red 2017 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound on Highway 74, a half-mile west of Carrizo Road in the Pinyon area, when he failed to execute a left-hand curve,…
Edison restores power Many local residents found flickering lights and slow fans Friday afternoon, June 30. In some houses, the power in only one room had died, but not the entire house. Southern California Edison confirmed reports of brownouts throughout Idyllwild last week. “We started getting calls about 4:35 p.m.,” said Mary Ann Milbourne of…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, June 25 to July 1. Idyllwild • June 25 — Assist other department, 11:12 a.m. Hemstreet Pl. Handled by deputy. • June 25 — Danger to self/other, 5:37 p.m. Idyllbrook Dr. Unfounded. • June 25 — Trespassing, 9:15…
Will explore future revenue measure Commissioners for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District approved the fiscal year 2017-18 budget at their June 27 meeting. For the fiscal year, beginning July, the fire department budget will be slightly greater than $2.1 million. The defeat of Measure W prevented the district from proposing any major changes or additions…
The Idyllwild Community Fund Advisory Committee, continuing work begun when a local couple established the fund in the 1990s, awarded nearly $16,000 in 2017 grants to seven Idyllwild-area nonprofits. Each year the committee awards grants from interest earned from the fund’s principal. The advisory committee, composed of local volunteers, has two primary duties: to grow…
Dwight “Buzz” Holmes, Idyllwild School music teacher, retired after 25 years from a job that has touched and enriched a generation of Idyllwild School students. He taught it all: choral music, instrumental music beginning with woodwinds and brass, then later introducing strings. He produced musical theater productions, often involving every student in the middle school…
