By Jim CrandallPalms to Pines Golf Association handicap chairman Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association played a four-man scramble format tournament on Friday, Jan. 15 at Morongo Tukwet Canyon Champions Golf Course in Beaumont. Instead of each person playing to win the tournament individually, in a scramble format, each foursome is a team competing against…
70 years ago – 1950 In order to share responsibility for Town Hall, various organizations were planning to put on benefits for upkeep of the community building. 65 years ago – 1955 Fire Chief Bill Price reported that 13 fire alarms, of which six required no action, had been answered in the previous year. 60…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the cats welcomed Sparky and Olive. Bear: Hey Sparky. Any adoptions last week? Sparky: Sadly, no. I was hoping to be in a forever home by now. Bear: In only one week? You are optimistic! Sparky: Maybe I am. I mean, I wowed every human who came…
Caltrans gave the following update Tuesday afternoon regarding delays on Highway 74 between Mountain Center and Hemet. “The resident engineer advises that the emergency culvert replacement project will continue till September 2020,” wrote Caltrans Public Information Officer Joy M. Schneider in an email. “Every day the contractor open cuts the roadway to remove and replace…
By Zach BehrensPublic affairs officer San Bernardino National Forest U.S. Forest Service (San Bernardino National Forest) fire crews will continue prescribed burning operations this week, including the possibility of starting a new, large project in the San Jacinto Mountains, pending weather and air quality conditions. Beginning Thursday, Feb. 6, crews may begin a broadcast burn…
The Idyllwild Water District (IWD) is looking for another general manager. When Acting General Manager Mitch Freeman stepped into the position after the sudden resignation of former General Manager Darren Milner Nov. 17, 2019, who left after only a month on the job, IWD Board President Dr. Charles Schelly wrote in an email to the…
Idyllwild local Andrew “Andy” Smith has been working for the U.S. Forest Service for 20 years and was honored this last November with the agency’s Agency Partner Employee Award. This award is given to an agency employee who has been very helpful to the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA) and an advocate for the Pacific…
The notice advertised at the head of the program for the Monday night Jan. 20 concert at Idyllwild Arts Academy read “A celebration of equality in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Taken at a glance, the celebratory nature of the event, as scheduled on the day set aside for the civil rights champion’s…
Esteemed rock-climbing veteran Howard “Kojak” Judson passed peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Howard is survived by his wife Mary Zo, daughter Kristin, son Erik, and sisters Jane and Pauline. Howard was born Jan. 27, 1942 in Long Beach, California. He attended Lakewood High School and completed both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in political…
Idyllwild’s Steven Leigh Morris, former LA Weekly critic and founding editor of Stage Raw, wrote a play, “Red Ink,” on stage now at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles. In a press release, Morris writes “Red Ink looks at the corrosive pressures of click-bait journalism and cut-throat competition on an imploding newspaper recently purchased…
