The Riverside County Board of Supervisors will have its second look at possible revisions to its districts’ boundaries as a result of the 2020 Census data. At the Sept. 28 meeting, the Executive Office Technical Redistricting Committee (EOTC) presented four maps of possible new boundaries to the board. In all four maps, Idyllwild and its…

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…

Former Fire Chief Dave Driscoll made a presentation about the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy to the Mountain Area Safety Taskforce last week. When the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009, a provision in the law mandated the development of a national, cohesive, wildland fire management…