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Mrs. Longbrook with her delighted kindergarten-1st grade class on the first day of school. Monday morning at Idyllwild School, Principal Matt Kraemer and teachers welcomed about 280 students, a growing enrollment. Photo by Careena Chase


The grand opening of Riverside County’s San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus will be Saturday, Oct. 26. The $18 million shelter was completed in 2010, but the county’s financial travails delayed its opening until this week. The celebration will include a free, hotdog lunch for the first 500 guests. For the day, all shelter dog adoptions…
The body of David “Dave” Elliott Bradish, 80, of Idyllwild, was found Saturday afternoon, Dec. 8. He had been missing since Monday, Nov. 26. Another search and rescue effort was initiated after his dog, Ginger, was found Wednesday near the Fern Valley Corners area of Idyllwild. Rain delayed the new search until Saturday. Bradish suffered…
Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…
The County Service Area 36 Advisory Council is on track to be restarted with six applications having been submitted for a five-member board, according Opal Hellweg, 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington’s legislative assistant. The two most recent applicants are David Hunt and William Faurot. Previously, Ginger Dagnall, Kathy Wilson, Sue Nash and Mark Davis had…
Board approves 4/10 workweek and purchase of stand-by generator Three individuals have submitted applications to fill the vacancy left by Fern Valley Water District (FVWD) Director Trischa Clark. The board will have a special meeting at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12 to interview and select Clark’s replacement before the district’s next regular board meeting Oct….
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors will have its second look at possible revisions to its districts’ boundaries as a result of the 2020 Census data. At the Sept. 28 meeting, the Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee (EOTC) presented four maps of possible new boundaries to the board. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its…