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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





Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) held its monthly meeting Wednesday, Oct. 11 with water use down. General Manager Jeremy Potter’s operations report showed production for September of 2,677,014 gallons, almost a million gallons less than last year. The wet winter, and summer rains, meant lower usage. System loss was 7.5%, some of which Potter attributed…
Mountain Disaster Preparedness conducted a four-hour “boots on the ground” exercise on Saturday. Here at the Town Hall Disaster Assistance Station, acting group commander Ian Schoenleber (standing center, back to camera) discusses the scenario with fellow team members.
While drought conditions still overlay most of Riverside County, the past four weeks have taken a toll on the dry weather. This weekend more than a foot of snow fell on the Hill and some more is expected this week. This is in contrast with the warm weather at the end of February, when Idyllwild…
Efforts to re-establish the native population of Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs will resume in 2013. The initial project will be relocating several hundred frogs — sub-adults — in the James Reserve later this spring, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine. “The last couple of years…
Editor’s note: On Sept. 27, 2023, the Wildland Fire Mitigation andManagement Commission released its 340-page report that included 148recommendations to the administration as well Congress and the state,local and tribal governments. On March 12, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcesheld a hearing with members of the administration and of the commission.(See the…
Editor’s note: Some of this story is taken from past Town Crier news coverage of this crime. The California Appeals Court, District 4, denied a rehearing and the Supreme Court denied a review of Robert Lars Pape, 33, and Cristin Conrad Smith, 32, who in 2018 were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in…