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Lisa Draper’s fourth grade students transport an “injured person” to the triage area during a Mountain Disaster Preparedness exercise held on Wednesday morning. The students from left to right are: Kate Taylor, Olivia Hernandez, David Cohen, Maggie McKimson, Emma Johnston, Destiny Mikroulis, Pierce Pramuka and Sidney Tschuor. Photo by Careena Chase


Membership renewals approaching By Jack Clark Co-publisher and General Counsel Yes, the Town Crier is for sale. But, no, we’re not in a hurry. We are committed to finding the right publishers who will continue a real newspaper for our Hill — a paper that will carry on as a community watchdog publishing the bad…
The Idyllwild Water District has scheduled a special meeting at 9 a.m., Monday, April 22. The Board will discuss and may approve a bid to install replacement pipeline along Village Center Drive from South Circle Drive. The Board reviewed proposals at its April 17 meeting but deferred a decision so that General Manager…
Smoke wafting through the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains Wednesday morning is coming from fires in the Sequoia and Los Padres National Forests, not a new, nearby fire, according to the Forest Services’s San Bernardino National Forest division. The Tweet from SB National Forest: Seeing/smelling smoke in the Mtns and Valleys? That is smoke…
Multiple collisions occurred from July 1 to 11, according to California Highway Patrol (CHP) Public Information Officer Matt Napier.At 8:25 a.m. Thursday, July 1, Mark Charles Wakeling, 53, of Winchester, was driving a red and white 2019 Cal Fire Dodge Ram 5500. Wakeling was in an on-duty emergency vehicle traveling eastbound on Highway 74 5,000…
According to CHP Officer Brian King, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, a male rider (left) was on his Harley Davidson motorcycle heading West on Hwy. 74 near mile marker 55. As he rounded the turn, he crossed over the double yellow line colliding head on with a Dodge truck that was traveling East on Hwy 74….
Pine Cove Water District General Manager Jerry Holldber plans to provide a detailed report on the district’s water resources — well levels and possible future changes — at the June meeting. “I’ll have a better status of the well recovery rates then. Right now they are producing good,” Holldber stated and advised his board last…