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The move into the new Town Crier office and Visitors Center on North Circle Drive took place Friday morning and through the weekend. Staff and others were busy getting the place set up for business as quickly as possible. Photo by Barbara Reese




The devastating six-year storm, which passed over Southern California this weekend, treated the Hill very kindly. The damaging high winds and flash floods that occurred throughout the region Friday and Saturday passed north of the San Jacinto Mountains. The gentle rain simply added to the total precipitation this year. The U.S. Forest Service’s Ranger Station…
The U.S. Forest Service will continue to conduct pile burns this week along the Pine Cove Fuel Break. The Forest Service has an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 piles to burn in the Pine Cove area. The burn area is about 230 acres and is one of the larger projects in the San Bernardino National Forest…
County official Michael Franklin told the County Service Area (CSA) 36 Advisory Committee that its fiscal year expenses through November 2011 had been $63,000.
The Hemet High School graduating class of 2011 included 22 members from Idyllwild. In the few years since that bright, sunny and cool evening, most of these “Hillbillies” have left the Hill, if not permanently, at least temporarily. As they have gradually broken from the chrysalis of teen-hood and become young adults, they have spread…
Fire log For the sixth consecutive week, Idyllwild Fire Station reported no medical or fire responses by press time. Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls, Sunday to Saturday, April 26 to May 2. Idyllwild • April 26 — Burglary, Cedar St. Report taken. • April 29 —…
Headliners for the festival will be Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band …