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Mrs. Longbrook’s first grade class performs a dance routine during Blast to the Past on Friday evening in the Idyllwild School gymnasium. The event is organized by the Associated Student Body. It is an opportunity for students to show off their talents and ASB to raise funds for the school’s many annual field trips. Photo by Halie Johnson
















As California begins to roll back COVID-related public health measures, school districts across the state, including Hemet Unified School District (HUSD), have been announcing an end to mask mandates, even as other measures remain in effect.The two-yearlong rolling battle with the virus has divided parents, teachers and school boards, splitting all three groups and putting…
As the Town Crier earlier reported, CBS shot a video a few weeks back with PGA Tour golfer Brendan Steele showing off his Idyllwild hometown. Footage shot by CBS was used on Sunday, June 7, in the nationally televised show “Coming Home,” which featured Brendan and a few other PGA Tour professionals in their hometown…
About 40 came to assist the Forest Service for the 34th season …
Monica Eileen Smith, daughter of Bob and Adele Smith of Idyllwild, passed the California State Bar exam and was sworn in recently by Northern California District Judge Edward J. Davila. She graduated from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco in 2013 and lives in Mountain View with her husband and two children. A frequent…
Idyllwild local Taylor Dravenstatt, 24, previously sent to state prison for felony burglary in 2013, was sentenced for a second felony burglary of a Perris residence that occurred on Sept. 6, 2016. As part of the minute order from the sentencing proceeding on Friday, Nov. 18, Dravenstatt’s burglary charge was reduced from first to second…
Sometime between 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, and Monday morning, a thief or thieves broke into mail boxes in the Idyllwild Post office. “Both mail and parcels were stolen and there were multiple victims,” said Sergeant Sgt. Ken Reichle of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station. If anyone has any leads on the investigation, they…