J.P. Crumrine is editor of the Town Crier. He can be reached at jp@towncrier.com.
Share/Bookmark About 11:31 a.m., Friday, May 17, deputies from the Hemet Sheriff’s Station responded to a call about an injured rock climber at Humber Park in Idyllwild. The climber, Lucas Dunn, 21 of Idyllwild, had fallen approximately 150 feet from Lily Rock. CAL FIRE medical personnel hiked Lily Rock and located the injured climber, a [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Riverside County Waste Management Department has scheduled a free household hazardous waste collection event on Saturday, May 18 in Idyllwild at the County Road Yard, starting at 9 a.m. through 2 p.m. The Yard is located at 25780 Johnson Road. The collection is open to all Riverside County residents. The Riverside County Waste Management [...]
Share/BookmarkWhen you read this column, Idyllwild Fire’s May 14 meeting will already have occurred. Nevertheless, one of the agenda items merits some discussion and next week, I’ll report on the action at the meeting. In the previous episode of this soap opera, we left IFPD with the discovery of a missing $100,000. They were planning [...]
Share/BookmarkEfforts to re-establish the native population of Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs will resume in 2013. The initial project will be relocating several hundred frogs — sub-adults — in the James Reserve later this spring, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine. “The last couple of years [...]
Share/BookmarkThe U.S. Forest Service recently issued a contract for new next-generation air tankers, which will begin the effort to rebuild its air tanker fleet. The agency is working to bring all seven next-generation air tankers into service over the next year. Nearly a year ago, Forest Service Director Tom Tidwell told Congress that the current [...]
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Share/BookmarkThe Pine Cove underground storage tank project, which the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health has been monitoring since 1994, is nearly closed. In the absence of any public comments on its notice of proposed closing, the department authorized Frey Environmental to pull its monitoring wells at the Pine Cove Market. This work was completed [...]
Presentation Saturday at Earth Fair celebration …
Share/BookmarkCaltrans has started resurfacing Highway 74. Delays going to Hemet have occurred over the past several weeks. While the first phase was completed Friday, the overall project will not be completed until the first week of June, according to Joy M. Sepulveda, public information officer for Caltrans’ District 8. The project will grind the existing [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Gorgonio Fire, which started near noon Saturday, May 4, scorched nearly 510 acres in the Twin Pines area before being contained Sunday evening. This fire, south of Banning, followed soon after firefighters had contained the Summit Fire, which started Wednesday, May 1, north of Banning. Eventually the Summit Fire burned nearly 3,200 acres. On [...]
