Editor: My husband and I live in Mountain Center and come to Idyllwild a couple times a month. We usually have our two medium-sized dogs with us and have gone to the dog park on occasion. Saturday, April 8, we stopped in, got our dogs out and were just getting ready to join the two…
Wanda Leean (Curington) Swanson, 92, long-time resident of Idyllwild, passed away peacefully of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center, in Palm Desert, on Saturday, April 8, 2017, surrounded by her family. She was born in Charlie, Texas, on May 25, 1924, to James Roy and Ola Vae Curington, and she was always known in the…
Mountain Disaster Preparedness, the local nonprofit in the forefront of citizen disaster preparation measures, will present a forum about issues surrounding mandatory disaster evacuation. Mike Feyder, MDP president, said the topic is important now for a number of reasons: that many new residents have moved to the Hill since the 2013 Mountain Fire, the most…
Editor’s note: This was taken from a press release from the U.S. Forest Service. The U.S. Forest Service has named Robert Baird as the director of Fire and Aviation Management for its Pacific Southwest Region. Since May 2014, Baird has been the forest supervisor on the Los Padres National Forest. Besides on-ground fire experience at…
The Ad Hoc Fire Committee of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors did not agree fully with the recommendations to save nearly $12 million in the current county fire budget last week. The biggest difference was rather than using two-person medical crews and reducing the number of three-person engines, the committee recommended maintaining the three-person…
55 years ago – 1962 Foster Lake opened for trout fishing. 50 years ago – 1967 Fire commissioners voted to purchase a portion of the Idyllwild Inn property as a site for the new fire station. 45 years ago – 1972 Jessica Hamilton just couldn’t wait. She was delivered in the fire department ambulance near…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the cats learned of ARF’s new litter of puppies. Audrey: Has Bobbie been around to tell you all the news? Whiskers: She hasn’t, and that’s a surprise. Bobbie: (bursting into the cattery): Oh no you don’t, Audrey! I’m the office cat, so I share the news! Audrey:…
Idyllwild resident Jeffrey Turner is modest and taciturn. He also is extraordinarily accomplished in his field of architecture and design. “You can build anything you can dream,” said Turner. “That’s what I like about architecture — the fantasy.” Turner will talk at the Idyllwild Library about his dream career and particularly his experience as project…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointed retired attorney Peter Szabadi to the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee at its Tuesday, April 11, board meeting. Szabadi, who also serves on the boards of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild and the Idyllwild Water District, said his interest in serving on the CSA 36 Advisory Committee…
As part of the annual spring influx of Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers, six military veteran hikers will be welcomed by American Legion Post 800. This is the fourth year returning combat vets are hiking the PCT and visiting Idyllwild as part of Warrior Expeditions’ “Warrior Hike — Walk off the War,” a program designed to…
