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PHOTOS: Town commemorates 9/11
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The U.S. flag flying over Hwy 243 during the 9-11 Ceremony and then all day in memory of the tragedy





On April 1, Capt. Mike Mulhall retired from the Idyllwild Fire Protection District. He had served 28 years …
By Melissa Diaz Hernandez and Jenny KirchnerEditor and Reporter/Photographer Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser announced at Tuesday’s Riverside County Supervisors meeting that three deaths have occurred in the county as a result of COVID-19. Kaiser had issued a press release the evening prior stating that there were two deaths. As of the…
It has been almost a year since one of the members of our IdyllwildCommunity passed on September 11, 2023, a date that is impossible toforget. Robert J. Priefer should be acknowledged and remembered not only for hisinvolvement in the community of Idyllwild since the 1970s (1974 to beexact) but also for the personal interactions and…
Once again the Idyllwild Town Crier captured several awards in the statewide Better Newspapers Contest, which the California Newspaper Publishers Association annually sponsors. The contest period was from November 2013 through October 2014. Two of our contributors earned second-place awards for their work. Cheryl Bayse’s photograph of the girl and the butterfly during Butterfly Daze…
Cranston Fire Wednesday, July 25, the third of four consecutive days of heat warnings, started with blue skies, hardly any clouds, but hot. No one but one man, an arsonist, had any idea how hot that day and days that followed would get. The Cranston Fire began that morning. At 11:45 a.m., 911 (emergency dispatch)…
Rhonda Andrewson was re-elected president of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s Board of Commissioners last week while the other officers — Larry Donahoo, vice president; Jeannine Charles-Stigall, secretary; and Jerry Buchanan, treasurer — also were re-elected. Andrewson has been on the commission since December 2013 and was first elected president last year. The election of…