

MDP installs new Post Office information box
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Mountain Disaster Preparedness personnel stand before their recently installed post office information Shadow Box showing, among other things, locations of all the Disaster Assembly Stations throughout Idyllwild and Pine Cove. From left, Bob Edwards, treasurer; Sherry Edwards, vice president; Marty Krieger, DAS director, Edith Brix, DAS H captain and B.J. Brix, communications director and DAS H captain. Photo by Marshall Smith

Nancy Layton, chair of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Finance Committee, in consultation with fire Chief Patrick Reitz canceled the committee’s Feb. 17 meeting. The next scheduled committee meeting is Tuesday, March 17. “… we do not have pressing business or substantial regular business of the Finance Committee to attend to next week,” Layton said…
In last week’s paper, I wrote that at the June 10 Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) board meeting PCWD General Manager Jerry Holldber had excoriated Town Crier’s Editor Melissa Diaz Hernandez’s June 4 article claiming it contained inaccuracies. I did not mention that at the meeting Pine Cove resident Nancy Borchers had read her written…
With its 30th anniversary, the Jazz in the Pines Festival is ending. Thefestival has brought mainstream jazz and crossover artists, as well asregional jazz greats, to audiences who came up the hill for the day orweekend and has been the major fundraiser for scholarships to theIdyllwild Arts Academy. The festival has, in recent years, turned…
Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington named two Hill locals, Mark Garrett and Ted Janka, to fill the two vacant seats on the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee. Both live within the prescribed CSA 36 boundaries. Washington’s recommendation went before the full Board of Supervisors for appointment on Tuesday, March 21. With their…
The U.S. Forest Service is requesting comments by Nov. 5 on its proposal to create or to maintain defensible space abatement around many of its administrative sites in the San Jacinto Ranger District. Administrative sties can include recreation cabins, communication sites, fire lookout towers, developed camp sites, day use areas, fire stations, trailheads, travel routes,…
Pamela Jordan, head of school at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, will become the next president of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. Jordan will begin at Idyllwild Arts in July 2014. “I am thrilled that Pamela has accepted the position of president. IAF is a marvelous institution with a legacy of commitment to creativity and…