Editor: It’s a no-brainer. If you don’t go digital it’s just a matter of time before you go out of business. Is there any environmentalist in Idyllwild? Why would you want to waste all that paper? The people who want to hold the paper look at it then throw it in the trash. God knows…
Editor: I was shocked to earn of Idyllwild Water District’s “solution” to the $3,500 water bill. Splitting it is like sentencing an innocent person to half a sentence when she/he deserves no sentence at all. Why not total up every water bill these customers have had and divide the total by the number of months…
Each week, certain subjects are the talk of the town — sometimes the conversations go on for more than a week or even continue for months, such as the sudden appearance of a California black bear who has livened up the mountains with surprise appearances here and there. First we witnessed and suffered through snow-play…
Riverside County has taken the next step with its use of Emergency Medical Dispatch. Since EMD’s initial implementation in 2012, trained dispatchers on 911 emergency medical calls question the caller about the symptoms of the victim whose life may be in jeopardy. The questions follow a very thoroughly tested and studied protocol. “Is this…
“… [L]arge fire potential will likely remain above normal across Southern California well into November,” was the conclusion of the latest “National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook” from the Predictive Services unit at the National Interagency Fire Center. Despite the very wet winter, the high pressures during the past month have returned very warm and…
Health officials urge TB testing for some students and staff On Tuesday, Riverside County health officials announced that a student at Tahquitz High School in Hemet has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis. The county public health officials are working with school representatives to identify students and staff who might have been exposed to the illness….
Celia “Granny” Wagner passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at home in West Hills. She was born April 24, 1920, in Long Beach to Celia Rae Lewis and Guy C. Lewis. Preceded in death by her parents and her husband F. William “Doc” Wagner, she is survived by daughters Bonnie Ann Caylor, Robin Saporito and…
This episode of “Days of Our Nine Lives” will be dedicated to profiling the cast of characters. Carli: Carli is a very shy, unobtrusive girl who is 6 years old. She prefers to have her own nook where she may curl up and observe the rest of the world, but she is happy to have…
IAA is more than 50 percent international enrollment Jeni Sponseller, English as a Second Language chair at Idyllwild Arts Academy, is the next speaker at the academy’s Spotlight on Leadership talk. This series, sponsored by the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation, is designed to familiarize townspeople with the academy’s academic and arts curricula and how they…
While Social Security’s cost-of-living increase for 2017 was 0.3 percent, the federal government is about to raise the price of a lifetime senior pass (for those ages 62 or older) by 700 percent — from $10 to $80. For those with current senior passes, they do not need to do anything. The current passes will…
