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Every year, the Idyllwild Rotary Club gives dictionaries to third-graders at Idyllwild, Hamilton and Cottonwood schools. Rotarians Scott Fisher, left, and Charlie Wix, right, hand out dictionaries to the students. Third grade teacher Sally Salter observes from the background. Photo by Cid Castillo

Updated 4 p.m. Despite the National Weather Service’s forecast of less than inch accumulation this afternoon. Here’s the view from N.Circle Drive in front of the Town Crier office. This morning, Thursday, Dec. 19, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Southern California Mountains, including the Hill, from Thursday morning, Dec….
A body was found near the South Fork Trail at the mixing station on Highway 74 about 1 mile west of Mountain Center. The victim, an adult male, appeared to be a drifter or homeless person, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Duckett. No identification was found with or near the body. The cause…
Warnings were the highlight of the December Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting. With help from the diminishing rain in the past several years, bark beetle populations are resurging and beginning to kill more pines on the Hill. As more lumber needs to be ground, the grinding station is seeking a larger and more secure water…
Caps and density limits added Last week, Riverside County announced a special meeting for its Planning Commission to review revisions to its short-term rental (STR) ordinance (927.1). Following a winter and spring of public meetings and small group sessions, the Planning Department has prepared a revision to the STR ordinance. This can be found online…
The Fern Valley Water District directors re-elected James Rees as the board president for 2016. Rees joined the board in December 2009, serving in each of the positions of vice president, secretary and treasurer. Trischa Clark and Richard Schnetzer were re-elected vice president and secretary-treasurer, respectively. In surprising and sad notice, Charles Wix sent a…
By Stephanie YostIdyllwild Community Center board president Rotary Club of Idyllwild donated $3,900 to support Idyllwild Community Center’s (ICC) distance learning camp at Town Hall. The program, which began last fall and will last until school lets out, provides a very low-cost, socially-distanced location with adult support and supervision for about a dozen Idyllwild School…