Idyllwild Town Crier

Editor’s Note: The 2024 Presidential Election will be Tuesday, November 5. Besides the races for President and the U.S. Senate, to succeed Diane Feinstein, there are many local races which will determine who represents the Hill in the State Assembly and the U.S. Congress. Joey Acuna The Town Crier will...

Editor’s Note: The 2024 Presidential Election will be Tuesday, November 5. Besides the races for President and the U.S. Senate, to succeed Diane Feinstein, there are many local races which will determine who represents the Hill in the State Assembly and the U.S. Congress. Jeff Gonzalez The Town Crier will...

Editor’s Note: The 2024 Presidential Election will be Tuesday, November 5. Besides the races for President and the U.S. Senate, to succeed Diane Feinstein, there are many local races which will determine who represents the Hill in the State Assembly and the U.S. Congress. Greg Wallis The Town Crier will...

“This summer’s weather has been somewhat of a rollercoaster,” was the lead sentence in a weather story two weeks ago! Hang on, the temperatures on the Hill have passed the rollercoaster’s dip and returned to the top again. From record highs in July and early September to record lows in the middle of September,...

Halloween decorations are going up all around us; jack o’lanterns, skeletons and other spooky figures provide delightfully macabre touches to our neighborhoods, but one increasingly common decoration has been targeted as dangerous to wildlife: artificial spiderwebs. The most common material is a type of polyester, similar to fiberglass or cotton in appearance, and social media this year...

The second of two Climate Credits for customers will be on Southern California Edison’s October bill. This credit, just as April’s, is for $86. This will be identified as either “CA Climate Credit” or “California Climate Credit” or “Small Business Climate Credit” on your bill. Since 2014, California’s large investor-owned utility...

Proposition 5 Proposition 5 lowers the approval level for local government bonds if their purpose is affordable housing for low- and middle-income residents, or for public infrastructure including roads, water, and fire protection bonds. Currently approval requires a “Yes” vote from, at least, two-thirds of the ballots cast. Prop 5 lowers approval to 55%.

At their Oct. 1 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved additional funding for an Idyllwild and San Jacinto Mountains Emergency Outdoor Warning System and Travelers' Information Stations. The project was originally approved in September 2021. The first phase was planning. The initial amount appropriated for this phase was $88,000. In October 2022,...