Hill businesses and institutions that will be closed Monday, July 4, to observe Independence Day: Area post offices BBVA Compass bank Fern Valley Water District Hemet Unified School District Idyllwild Health Center Idyllwild Library Idyllwild Transfer Station Idyllwild Water District Pine Cove Water District Riverside County offices Town Crier These will be open: Fairway Market…

Riverside County Sheriff’s Department officers executed a search, pursuant to a warrant, on the Bonita Vista Ranch in Garner Valley Sunday morning, Oct. 15. The 117-acre ranch is the property of Dia Abrams, who has been missing since June 6, 2020. It was also the scene of the death of Jodi Newkirk in December 2021,…

The Idyllwild Community Center board is hosting a community meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, April 4, at the Rustic Theatre. “We want to make certain everyone in the community knows when the project will start and how it benefits the community and what will be part of Phase 1,” stated Janice Lyle, chair of the…

Highway 243 has one-lane traffic in front of Keenwild Guard Station in Mountain Center today. The U.S. Forest Service and Caltrans are removing dead trees from the July 2013 Mountain Fire burn area. About a quarter-mile east of the Mixing Station on Highway 74, traffic also has slowed to one lane due to Caltrans work…

Last week the Crier reported a citizen’s complaint about contractors working for Southern California Edison (SCE) spraying herbicide around power poles both along public roads and within the utility easement, and on private property. An SCE representative answered some of the questions and gave readers an update on SCE’s wider wildfire mitigation efforts. At that…