Idyllwild Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Marianne Kent-Stoll as the new Dean of Academics. Last week the school announced that Kent-Stoll would start on July 1. She replaces the former Dean of Academics Anna-Karin Li. Kent-Stoll comes to Idyllwild Arts Academy from the Staten Island Academy in Staten Island, N.Y., where she…

An Idyllwild man pleaded guilty to two counts of child exploitation Monday, Dec. 6, in a Riverside County Superior Court.The Riverside County District Attorney’s (DA) Child Exploitation Team arrested Ryan Christopher Lujan, 26, of Idyllwild on April 8, 2021 with the DA’s office charging him with two felony counts involving child exploitation images.DA Public Information…

The proposed increase in the trash-service fees paid to Riverside County were approved at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting June 19. This is only for residential service. The current annual fee of $116.88 would be increased $19.80 annually through July 1, 2021, with a fifth increase of $19.92 on July 1, 2022. The most-recent increase…

Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…

On Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors held a special evening meeting to discuss realigning the supervisorial districts as a result of the 2020 census. The board agreed to eliminate the four original staff-drawn maps. The next step is more detailed analysis of the maps initially presented to the supervisors at this…