Photos: Last Week in Idyllwild: September 24, 2015
Officials with San Bernardino National Forest are seeking comments from the public on two preliminary grants submitted to the state of California to help fund the forest’s off-highway vehicle (OHV) operations. The draft applications, based on public and staff feedback given in February, seek to enhance ground operations and law enforcement functions:• Ground operations requests…
Editor’s note: On Aug. 30, the Town Crier reported that Darryl Scholl had been stabbed multiple times on the night of Aug. 21. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had arrested and charged Jeremy Greene, 23, of Oceanside, for the attack two days later. Since that story appeared, several people have stepped forward with additional information…
The individual who died in a March 24 traffic collision on Highway 74 near Pinyon has been identified as John Davis, 76, of Mountain Center, according to the California Highway Patrol. A non-injury collision involving a 1994 Ford F-250 ran off Highway 74 near Forbes Ranch Road and into a barbed wire fence at 12:38…
On Wednesday, March 26, at about 1:30 a.m., Antonietta Zuber was awakened by the sound of a motor vehicle outside the home she shares with her husband, Peter Zuber. “It was a large, white vehicle, extremely noisy,” she told the Town Crier, “perhaps a diesel.” It was pulling what appeared to be an empty utility…
At the Fern Valley Water District board meeting, General Manager Steve Erler noted that decreased water pressure cited by some firefighters responding to the Howland fire may have been the result of an older 4-inch line feeding Howland. “Firefighters took water from the hydrants at the dead end at the top of Howland and from…
One traffic collision to report so far last week on Highway 74, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Matt Napier.At 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23, Richard Moreno, 30 of Coachella, was driving westbound on Highway 74 east of Keen Camp Road at about 20 mph in a gray 2004 Dodge Ram behind…