With all the warnings that the approaching El Niño weather pattern and its accompanying rains will be greater than the 1997-98 rainfall, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has already adopted a proclamation of local emergency. Emergency Management Department Director Kim Saruwatari made the unusual request. In her memorandum to the board, she said El…

On Wednesday, March 26, at about 1:30 a.m., Antonietta Zuber was awakened by the sound of a motor vehicle outside the home she shares with her husband, Peter Zuber. “It was a large, white vehicle, extremely noisy,” she told the Town Crier, “perhaps a diesel.” It was pulling what appeared to be an empty utility…

A motorcyclist was injured in a crash just south of Idyllwild Thursday, Jan. 22, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. Marcus Wagner, 21, of Moreno Valley, was riding a 2014 Kawasaki Ninja south on Highway 243 just 350 north of Saunders Meadow Road when he entered a left-hand curve and laid…