We’re well into our second year of COVID, and it seems uncertainty prevails as to whether the pandemic is winding down with the number of people vaccinated or beginning a new surge with delta variant and the number of people still unvaccinated.So, once again, thanks are in order to the essential workers in our community…

According to CHP Officer Brian King, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, a male rider (left) was on his Harley Davidson motorcycle heading West on Hwy. 74 near mile marker 55. As he rounded the turn, he crossed over the double yellow line colliding head on with a Dodge truck that was traveling East on Hwy 74….

More recent update at bottom of the story: At about 11:15 a.m. Sunday, June 13, a wildfire was reported in the Pinyon area. Quickly, fire personnel, planes carrying retardant and helicopters hauling water in buckets descended on the area. The Flats Fire was burning in the Santa Rosa Mountains off Highway 74 near Pinyon Crest,…

Director elections moved to November in 2022 At its regular November meeting, the Idyllwild Water District directors adopted new regulations for administering the sewer system and agreed to move their bi-annual August election for directors to the state’s November general elections beginning in 2022. The new sewer rule, Ordinance 65, replaces regulations adopted 20 years…

As prospective retirees, we are now looking for an appropriate purchaser for the Idyllwild Town Crier, our community’s fully adjudicated newspaper that has now completed 75 years of continuous publication in the San Jacinto Mountains — someone who will continue the Town Crier’s tradition of serving our Hill as a real community newspaper.Someone, preferably with…