Lookout tower spots all of them Thursday, June 14, was a busy day for local firefighters and for lookouts at the Tahquitz Peak lookout tower. They called in the first reports for three different fires that day, according to Zach Behrens, San Bernardino National Forest public information officer. Shortly before noon, smoke was seen just…

Vincent Daniel Gillman, 51, of Pine Cove, was arrested Thursday, June 14, by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on felony charges of suspicion of violation of Penal Code sections on embezzlement and second-degree burglary. Penal Code section 503 defines embezzlement as “the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted (sic),”…

Plywood boards up the recently removed Bank of America ATM at the BBVA Compass Bank location.

3:21 p.m.: The Cal Fire helicopter was released from the fire. 3:05 p.m.: TC photographer Steven King reports “it looks primarily like ground fuel, they have a handle on it, heli[copter] circulating but not currently dropping.” 2:47 p.m.: Indian Fire incident commander has started canceling resources, a good sign. IC is requesting an arson investigator….

Removed from endangered and threatened status The Hidden Lake Bluecurls will officially be removed from the federal list of Endangered and Threatened Species on July 2. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the threats to the plant’s continued existence no longer exist or have been mitigated. The Bluecurl, whose whose official name…

Due to consistently low attendance, Town Hall recently cancelled the primary-school, after-care program for the coming year. Idyllwild Community Center Program Director Bob Lewis and ICC Recreation Committee Chair Pete Capparelli assure Idyllwild parents that the afterschool Kinder Program will continue in the fall in its current format. Scott Payne, coordinator of Hemet Unified School…