







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 second of two speakers featured at the Idyllwild Garden Club’s “Discover Mountain Gardening” event, Joe Walker (above) of Obra Verde Growers, speaks about Australian perennials that grow well in our local mountains. The first speaker was UCSD professor Dr. James Nieh (not shown), who spoke about “The Dangers of Being a Honey Bee: Predators, Pesticides and Colony Collapse.”
The Riverside County Emergency Management Department (EMD) wants to know whether your home or business was damaged due to any of the 2023 storms. If your home or business was damaged or incurred losses during recent storms, visit https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/587b6684c0dd430e83a5f5f380368941. This is an online form where you can describe the damages, the type of damage, repair…
The Idyllwild Town Crier has again been recognized as an award-winning newspaper. On Saturday, the California Newspaper Publisher’s Association honored the Town Crier with four awards for the period from Nov. 1, 2010 through Oct. 30, 2011. Two were in the photography categories and the others were in writing and website. Cid Castillo earned a…
Prescribed burning operations in the San Jacinto Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest will begin in the next few week, according to a U.S. Forest Service release. Firefighters will be burning slash and debris piles adjacent to Forest Service fire stations. Signs will be posted along the roadways to alert passersby to the…
Winter Storm Warning At 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, the National Weather service issued a “Winter Storm Warning” for the Riverside County mountains. The warning was for heavy snow and strong winds from Sunday evening through 4 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6. NWS was forecasting that a “… combination of heavy snow and strong winds will…
Downtown Idyllwild Saturday, Dec. 23, saw hundreds of tourists visiting the village.PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD