Some 150 residents packed into the Idyllwild Library on Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, to hear about the forecast for an El Niño fall and winter, bound for Southern California.
VIDEO: Idyllwild’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness presents “Prepared for El Niño” on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
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Some 150 residents packed into the Idyllwild Library on Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, to hear about the forecast for an El Niño fall and winter, bound for Southern California.
The Forest Service needs volunteers to help count bald eagles for the annual winter bald eagle counts in and near the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains on Saturdays, Feb. 9 and March 9. This is the 35th season of bald eagle counts and the first two days, in December and January, successfully spotted local…
The litigation filed against California’s State Regulated Area Fire Fee has been dormant for many months. Lawyers for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, who filed the suit, have reported that the case is still active and work is continuing. “Our legal department is currently working on a phase of the case known as ‘discovery,’ where…
Successful businesses continuously budget for advertising. Make sure your advertising budget focuses on the very clients and customers you seek to reach. Advertising in a daily newspaper is costly and your ad gets thrown out the next day when a new issue replaces it. But readers keep and read their latest Town Crier — and…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District Finance Committee is exploring options to place a parcel-fee increase on the ballot this fall. Committee Chair and Commissioner Nancy Layton appointed an ad hoc committee of herself and committee member Sue Weisbart to review the options for generating more income, including a parcel-fee increase to go before voters in…
Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff met with the editorial and reporting staff of the Idyllwild Town Crier last week. One of the first topics discussed was Sniff’s recent decision to expand the use of body worn cameras. Currently deputies in the Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station have been testing the use of the cameras on a…
Mountain Area Safety Taskforce members last week discussed concerns that the county grinding station may be limiting the size of trees accepted at the Highway 243 site. Gregg Bratcher, state forester division chief and MAST chair, was told the grinding station was not accepting wood greater than 10 inches diameter at breast height. No one…