Idyllwild Town Crier marks 65th anniversary
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Vandals damaged and pilfered two cars at separate residences in the 54000 block of Jameson on Monday evening, Jan. 2. Both cars were parked in their owner’s home driveway, with a fair amount of ambient lighting in the area. Both cars were unlocked. At one house, vandals took items from an emergency response backpack and…
The weekend was warm and sunny. The National Weather Service is forecasting more warming to the middle of the week. Light showers may come Wednesday night and early Thursday, but then significantly warmer temperatures next weekend should usher in April. In the longer-term, the NWS forecasts a higher-than-normal probability of precipitation for Southern California over…
La Bella Montagna, a new Italian pasta house, opens July 1 in the former Mountain Restaurant site. Chef and proprietor Mariah Melendrez Tartaglia and partner Tony Nardi plan to serve up Tartaglia’s personal and family recipes, recipes born of her Sicilian and Roman heritage. Tartaglia has had two restaurants in the past, one in La…
Cynthia Cowell, Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance public information officer, met with Hill business people last week. SBA is making loans to local businesses that incurred economic injury from the Mountain or Silver fires. Cowell, here at the request of Riverside County’s Office of Emergency Services, explained the details of the process. These…
A local man was convicted and sentenced in San Bernardino last week for an Oct. 13 robbery at a WalMart store in Ontario. Jonathan Lee Henderson, 32, of Mountain Center, pleaded nolo contendere (or no contest) to a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge and requested immediate sentencing. He was sentenced to 180 days in…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that will allow terminally ill Californians to obtain medication to aid in dying, making California the fifth state to permit patients to terminate their lives. No longer will California “… make it a crime for a dying person to end his life, no matter how great his pain or suffering”…