
Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Photo by John Drake


That’s All Folk performing before a large, mostly local crowd outside Jo’An’s Restaurant and Bar Friday night.
Photo by Becky Clark

Last Week in Idyllwild: June 25, 2015
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Idyllwild’s walking library, Marge Muir, was taken to Eisenhower Medical Center last night and is awaiting possible surgery on a broken left hip. Her daughter, Kathy Muir, who lives with Marge in Pine Cove, said her mother was sitting in the living room at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, when some large raccoons came up on…
With its 30th anniversary, the Jazz in the Pines Festival is ending. Thefestival has brought mainstream jazz and crossover artists, as well asregional jazz greats, to audiences who came up the hill for the day orweekend and has been the major fundraiser for scholarships to theIdyllwild Arts Academy. The festival has, in recent years, turned…
Seeks new director The Idyllwild Water District had a short and relatively noncontroversial agenda for its Feb. 21 meeting. The board agreed to hire a third party to administer some its employee retirement plans. IWD is not a participant in the California Public Employees Retirement System, commonly called CalPERS. According to General Manager Jack Hoagland,…
[ This article “The Year of the Undefeated” is written in a two-part series. Find “Part 1” here. ] ICC Adult Basketball Last week we witnessed history being made in our local adult volleyball league. This week we turn our focus on to the other popular sports league played during the winter months: ICC Adult…
The 2013-14 Riverside County Grand Jury has issued a report concerning the Idyllwild Fire Protection District. The Grand Jury investigated three issues: the responsibilities of the administrative captain, political activities of uniformed firefighters and the district’s overtime expenses. IFPD has not officially responded to the report, according to Fire Chief Patrick Reitz. In a Dec….
The Town Crier continues to serve our community because of supporting advertising and our Membership model. Both are essential to our newspaper’s existence. More than 2,000 U.S. newspapers have disappeared during the past 15 years, and we don’t want the Town Crier to join them.The Town Crier is distributed to 10 locations around our Hill,…