Idyllwild Town Crier
Mountain rescue Sunday morning
At about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Cabazon Station responded to the San Jacinto Mountains after receiving a call...
Death Cafe celebrates one-year anniversary
By Elizabeth Miller
Special to the Town Crier
This time last year Francoise Frigola brought a new inspiration to Idyllwild, the Death Cafe. Having started in...
Trains still entrance
Ella Fors, 3, is fascinated Friday by the G-scale railroad running high inside Jo'An's restaurant. She, her parents and her brother, Nathan, visited from...
Fire in Idyllwild destroys workshop
A late-evening fire on Saturday destroyed the workshop of Karson Meltzer on Marian View Drive. Idyllwild Fire responded and kept the fire confined to...
NWS works out new deal with IFPD
Wednesday, March 18, the Town Crier reported that, after a Tuesday meeting with National Weather Service officials here in Idyllwild, the Town Crier had...
Fourth round of fire fee bills begins mailing
Last week, the state’s Board of Equalization began mailing the Fire Prevention Fee bills for fiscal year 2014-15. Many of more than 700,000 rural...
Past Tense: March 12, 2015
65 years ago - 1950
FM radio equipment was installed in Forest Service trucks and lookouts.
60 years ago - 1955
Registered voters served by the Idyllwild...
GSOB reminder
This is the perfect time of year to spot black oaks that may be harboring Goldspotted oak borers. Oaks with brown leaves still on the branches should be inspected, according to the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council. Here is an oak with retained leaves throughout the branchy canopy. A team composed of Ron Perry, Eliott Taylor and Doris Lombard spotted this tree during their morning drive-by windshield survey.
NWS storm warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
940 PM PST FRI FEB 27 2015
...SNOW SHOWERS WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL AT TIMES SATURDAY THROUGH
MONDAY...
READERS WRITE: Photo brings back memories
What a happy face I had when opening my last issue of the Crier and seeing the photo from so long ago — 1955...