

Idyllwild School gets exemplary honor for third time
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Idyllwild School students gather in front of the “California Distinguished School” sign to celebrate their hard work and achievements Friday morning. The California Distinguished School program honors some of California’s most exemplary and inspiring public schools. Schools selected for the Distinguished School Award demonstrate significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap. This is the third time Idyllwild has received this honor.

Following Friday night’s and Saturday morning’s rain, the U.S. Forest Service, San Jacinto Ranger District, burned some piles of forest and wood debris. “We burned 70 piles at Lawler [Lodge]; that completes that project for us,” said Dan Felix, district fire chief. “The rain will definitely help for a while, it is just a matter…
As prospective retirees, we are now looking for an appropriate purchaser for the Idyllwild Town Crier, our community’s fully adjudicated newspaper that has now completed 75 years of continuous publication in the San Jacinto Mountains — someone who will continue the Town Crier’s tradition of serving our Hill as a real community newspaper.Someone, preferably with…
The Idyllwild grinding facility will be closed Mondays from Dec. 4, 2017, through April 30, 2018. Weekday operations will continue on Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The site will be closed from noon to 1 p.m. daily for lunch. The facility will resume Monday operations on May 7, 2018. The facility…
Friends of The Idyllwild Library hosted Cahuilla and Serrano elder and ceremonial leader Kim Marcus for a sharing on February 25th. Kim is an enrolled member of the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians. The word Cahuilla means master or powerful ones. As ceremonial leader, Kim preserves ancient rituals, and customs, and together with his…
In the first County Service Area 38 Advisory Committee meeting since the Hill learned that the Idyllwild Fire Protection District wished to terminate its ambulance contract, residents seemed comfortable with the committee’s approach to the issue. …
A one-vehicle traffic crash resulted in the death of a Mountain Center man Monday evening about a half-mile east of Keen Camp Road on Highway 74. California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Murawski said the man was driving a Toyota Tacoma westbound near the speed limit when he drifted off the highway and hit a tree…