
Photo by John Pacheco


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Planned outage hit Friday
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Fairway Market closed its doors during the planned power outage on Friday. Manager Diana Johnson, pictured, worked through the outage. Idyllwild went without power for several hours. Several businesses, including Idyllwild Chevron, stayed open, powering their stores with back-up generators. Photo by John Pacheco



Shannon Ng, branch manager of the Idyllwild Library, is the new president of the Idyllwild Community Fund Advisory Committee. She was unanimously elected by members of the 2016 board. She brings strong managerial and communication skills to her new position as ICF president. The ICF Advisory Committee manages a fund, started by a local couple…
By Ken LuberIdyllwild author Editor’s note: This is another of a series of installments of a short story local author Kenneth Luber has written. See prior week Town Criers for the other installments. “Fred, Fred?” “Yes?” He lowered the newspaper so we could see eye to eye. “It’s not easy for me to say this….
Riverside County Board of Supervisors unanimously approves establishment of Idyllwild Historic Preservation District
As part of a run up to what is predicted to be a strong El Niño, Mile High Radio Club hosted a presentation about Skywarn – a Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service program. Skywarn is a volunteer program with 290,000 trained weather spotters throughout the United States. Volunteers help…
High Wind Warning URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 115 PM PST WED NOV 30 2011 …STRONG GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS THIS EVENING INTO FRIDAY… .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO THE AREA TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL GENERATE STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS..MAINLY IN THE MOUNTAINS…
The Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) Board of Directors met WednesdayApril 10 where General Manager Jeremy Potter’s report showed an area ofconcern: water losses of 26%. The target is below 10%. He called theloss “really high” and attributed it to leaks, two of which had beendiscovered Monday. Those two could account for most of the…