Several weeks ago, a Town Crier reader and Hill resident brought to our attention a particular large, gray, jagged rock hovering over Highway 243 near the location of the boulder fall at Dead Man’s Curve in January of this year. (See accompanying photo.) His concern was that it looked as if it would not take…

U.S. Forest Service firefighters were dispatched to the Idyllwild Arts campus Monday afternoon after reports of a fire. The vegetation fire, called the Apela Fire, was located about 100 yards up slope from the Grotto. It was contained to an 8-foot spot and extinguished quickly. Fire investigators were speaking to a group of three Pacific…

Although the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Auxiliary still has paperwork to complete before becoming completely official, the group is moving forward with its project planning. The fire department has expressed some of its main concerns and planning has begun on some of these projects. Priorities include organization and maintenance of the records room, remodeling of…