







Friends, family show their appreciation for Bob Muir
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The Muir family sit together at the service for Robert “Bob” Muir on Sunday at the Idyllwild Nature Center. Photos by Jenny Kirchner








The Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Board of Commissioners met last week at its normal time: the fourth Tuesday of the month at 3 p.m. The frequency of meetings and the time has been brought up multiple times in the past as an agenda item.The district presented Sturgeon Electric with a plaque for donating the…
Wednesday, Aug. 26, was a bad day on Hill roads with five collisions that produced four injuries, two of them serious. In Idyllwild, in Strawberry Valley Shopping Center, Jonathan Atchinson, 36, of Banning, driving a county vehicle, a 2005 Ford Taurus, backed out of a parking spot in front of the Idyllwild Library striking Idyllwild…
Recent torrential rains and flooding in Louisiana, the second-poorest state in the country, have again severely impacted children and the elderly. And, to worsen matters, some families who lost their New Orleans homes during Hurricane Katrina, then relocated to Baton Rouge, lost their homes again during recent flooding. Art therapist and Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold…
The Town Crier reports on several public agencies that are covered by other media as well. But the Town Crier is the sole monitor of six public agencies on our Hill that are covered by no other media source.Occasionally, the Town Crier has been tasked with reporting on local public agency occurrences we wish had…
This season’s flu vaccine is 23 percent effective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its effectiveness was reduced this year because between the time the components of the vaccine were determined and the fall when the vaccine was available the most prevalent influenza virus “drifted” or mutated. “This estimate is relatively low…
Four people were injured in a traffic collision Sunday afternoon on Highway 74. Michael Ayala, 18, of San Jacinto was traveling east on Highway 74 just east of Strawberry Creek in a 2007 white Subaru at 3:55 p.m. when he crossed the double-yellow lines into the path of a 2002 silver Toyota Highlander driven by…