

Happy helpers
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Joey and Max Neu with Grace McKimson help wash dishes during the Idyllwild School spaghetti dinner at the American Legion Post 800 Saturday evening.

Work on the Highway 243 Mill and Overlay project has resumed. Caltrans has provided these updates for the week of January 12: The week of January 12th, several daytime work activities with lane closure and flagging/pilot car operations will continue on SR 243 throughout the week between the hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m….
Hill businesses and institutions that will be closed Monday, Sept. 1, to observe Labor Day are: • Area post offices • BBVA Compass Bank • Fern Creek Medical Center • Fern Valley Water District • Hemet Unified School District • Idyllwild Health Center • Idyllwild Library • Idyllwild Nature Center • Idyllwild Water District •…
Locals, and friends living in the valleys to the west, noticed smoke last week from a prescribed burn. Lee Beyer, USFS Forestry Technician detailed to this district for the project, wrote in answer to an inquiry from the Town Crier that the smoke was from a “prescribed low-intensity burn of the Pine Cove Fuelbreak.” …...
In March of this year, Dean Agnoletto was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and posted at Hemet Station. He replaced Lt. Geoff Raya, who had been promoted to captain and given the command of the Indio jail facility. Agnoletto’s police background is in special teams of all sorts — SWAT, homicide, gang task…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Dec. 24 to Dec. 30. Idyllwild • Dec. 24 — Alarm call, 1:54 a.m., 52000 block of Double View Dr. Handled by deputy. • Dec. 24 — Alarm call, 1:59 p.m., Tahquitz View Dr. Handled by deputy. •…
Chief Finance Officer Hosny Shouman announced that the Idyllwild Water District is now debt-free. The final payment ($125,000) for notes issued in 1997 was made earlier this month. Total payments were $1.5 million and helped to re- finance the district’s sewage treatment facility. The district’s finances are positive through the first five months of the…