A weird week, wasn’t it? Here is some food for thought. Off the wall, maybe out of touch. But, in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett, “If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.” • Since no individual can really afford to be sick, it follows that the relative pittance we contribute to insurance…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the ARF cats were hoping folk would take advantage of the half-price cat adoptions. George: The half-price adoption worked last week. Bobbie: (Stepping in front of George) That’s right! Alice found her forever home. George: Geez, Bobbie. I was going to tell everyone. Bobbie: You know…
Dave Hunt got three out of four of the answers: Town Crier, IFPD and Chamber of Commerce (now defunct or the community would still own Town Hall). Rustic Theatre was another of his guesses but it opened in 1948. The fourth 1946 establishment that just celebrated its 70th anniversary is Idyllwild Arts, formerly Idyllwild School…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, May 7 to 13. Idyllwild • May 6 — Public disturbance, N. Circle Dr. Handled by deputy. • May 7 — Alarm call, Lake Ln. Handled by deputy. • May 7 — Trespassing, 54000 block of S. Circle…
A desert man crashed his vehicle on Highway 74 last week. At 6:25 a.m. Saturday, May 13, Ernest Pacheco, 26, of Cathedral City, was driving his black 2015 Chevrolet Cruz westbound 1,000 feet west of May Valley Road on Highway 74, when he made an unsafe turning movement to the left, crossed the double-yellow lines…
Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown released his “May Revision” for the 2017-18 state budget. Changes from the January budget proposal were modest. As a result of a slight higher revenue forecast, Brown’s May budget proposal totals $124 billion of state funds, which is $1.5 billion more than the January submission.
65 years ago – 1952 A meeting was announced to consider school unification. Under the proposal, Idyllwild’s school would be combined with the Hemet-San Jacinto District. 55 years ago – 1962 Logging trucks started rolling into May Valley, where the Big Bear Timber Company began salvage operations on pines damaged by severe insect attack. About…
Baseball Town Hall Youth Sports Coordinator Cindy Luna gave this report for Youth Baseball last week. T-Ball League: Isaiah McCaughey of Idyllwild Vacation Rentals Angels, slugged the baseball into a scrum on Tuesday, May 9, and when it emerged, found himself with an ending-inning grand slam. Dialing in her enthusiasm and energy, Idyllwild Shell Pirates’…
Pamela Jean Goldwasser, 60, of Idyllwild, died at home at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 2017, of cancer. She was born Oct. 5, 1956, to Audrey and Edgar Goldwasser in Indianapolis, Indiana. She lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1974 to 1988 and Los Angeles from 1989 to 2010, before moving to Idyllwild that year with…
