

San Bernardino Diocese visits Idyllwild
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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors has approved the request from the Idyllwild Fire Protection District for an advance of its property tax revenue. IFPD requested an advance of $350,000 from the county in June. The advance will be repaid, with interest, in December and January when Riverside County makes its first allocation of property…
Monitoring of underground leakage of petroleum products is continuing near and around the Chevron Station in Idyllwild. RM Environmental Inc. of Calimesa continues to monitor the site semi-annually for the presence of various hydrocarbons. The latest results, reported last month, detected total petroleum hydrocarbons, including methyl-tertiary-butyl ether, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes on the site…
A protest hearing on the proposed elimination of County Service Area 60 (Pinyon Pines and Pinyon Flats) will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 24. The Riverside County Local Agency Formation Commission will hold the hearing at its office, 3850 Vine Street, Suite 240, in Riverside. Any registered voter within the CSA 60 boundaries…
An AMS commercial paving truck towing a trailer with a pavement grinder overturned on Highway 243 about 5 p.m. Friday, April 26, as it was heading southbound. The incident happened about 1 to 1.2 miles north of Mountain Center (past the U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station toward Idyllwild). The fuel tank spilled about 60…
Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) is expanding its acreage by 18 acres. The purchase of Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District (POSD) land in Pine Cove is finally coming to completion. The board of supervisors approved the sale at its Oct. 17 meeting during its function as the board for the (POSD), which…
As many know, the Idyllwild Post Office lobby is closed for repairs. The anticipated shut down was expected to run from Aug. 19 to Aug. 27. However, the repairs ran longer than expected due to asbestos abatement. The Town Crier contacted Eva Jackson with United States Postal Service Corporate Communications asking what abatement/construction was occurring. …