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70 years ago - 1948<\/b><\/p>\n70 years ago - 1948<\/b><\/p>\n
Work was begun on the Idyllwild Fire House between the Trading Post and Ice & Fuel.<\/p>\n
65 years ago - 1953<\/b><\/p>\n
Joan Crawford, Kathryn Grayson and Elizabeth Taylor were in holiday pictures at The Rustic Theatre.<\/p>\n
60 years ago - 1958<\/b><\/p>\n
Santa Ana winds pushed the temperature to 80 degrees and reduced the humidity to 6 percent. Fire crews went on around-the-clock standby.<\/p>\n
55 years ago - 1963<\/b><\/p>\n
Junior bowling got underway with the formation of a league for youngsters at Sportland Park.<\/p>\n
50 years ago - 1968<\/b><\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s deputies made a narcotics raid on a house on
\nTahquitz Drive and took seven people into custody. This followed a raid earlier in the week by Idyllwild vigilantes as a result of which three men were charged with trespassing.<\/p>\n
45 years ago - 1973<\/b><\/p>\n
The Sierra Madre Girl Scout Council purchased the 320-acre Kolisch Ranch in Garner Valley.<\/p>\n
40 years ago - 1978<\/b><\/p>\n
The Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of Florist in the Forest.<\/p>\n
35 years ago - 1983<\/b><\/p>\n
Idyllwild Arts Foundation expressed general approval of a plan that would provide space for a California Conservation Corps crew on the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts campus.<\/p>\n
30 years ago - 1988<\/b><\/p>\n
Noah Whitney, 9, of Idyllwild, was one of the youngest winners ever in the Town Crier\u2019s annual Snow Guessing Contest. His name was drawn from the 95 contestants who correctly picked the date of the first snowfall of Friday, Nov. 25.<\/p>\n
25 years ago - 1993<\/b><\/p>\n
Shock, grief and disbelief were just some of the feelings expressed in the community after getting news of the murders of Pine Cove residents Rebecca Ruth Volldtedt-Ghazal, 38, and her daughter, Khadijah Ghazal, 13.<\/p>\n
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20 years ago - 1998<\/b><\/p>\n
Idyllwild Arts announced its newly appointed music director, Ransom Wilson.<\/p>\n
15 years ago - 2003<\/b><\/p>\n
The Riverside County Fire Department, in conjunction with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, announced the availability of funds to reimburse property owners for the removal of dead trees.<\/p>\n
10 years ago - 2008<\/b><\/p>\n
Rainbow Inn owners Lon Mercer and John Simpson visited Lyasomboro Primary School in Marangu, Tanzania, on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in October, taking with them gifts of sweaters for 50 boys orphaned by AIDS.<\/p>\n
5 years ago - 2013<\/b><\/p>\n
Break-ins throughout Idyllwild continued to grow. Capt. Scot Collins of the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department Hemet Station confirmed the recent spate of burglaries.<\/p>\n
1 year ago - 2017<\/b><\/p>\n
The holiday season begins at the U.S. Postal Service. It again expected to deliver more than 15-billion mail pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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