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Idyllwild Invidivisible part of nationwide movement
By Idyllwild Town Crier









At the latest Mountain Emergency Services Committee (MEMSCOMM) meeting, coordinator Gina Moran-McGough discussed current availability of Homeland Security grant-funded mobile trailers designed to assist disaster recovery in areas of most critical need. Each trailer has 100 cots, blankets, a generator and other emergency supplies and can be towed to areas where most needed. Moran-McGough said…
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has settled its lawsuit against Dr. Tarek M. Al-Shawaf and his two employees, James and Donna Nowlin, for $1,566,666, according to a copy of the formal settlement agreement received from the California Attorney General’s Office in response to the Town Crier’s formal California Public Records…
The winter weather and storms were difficult to experience. The resulting road closures have been a nuisance for some, an inconvenience for others, a burden for some, and devastating for those who live and work in Hemet or Idyllwild and have a daily commute to and fro. While electric and heating were needed throughout winter,…
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…
A Silver Alert is a public notification system in the U.S. to broadcast information about missing persons — especially senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities. One was issued Thursday, June 9, after 80-year-old Bennie Ruth Bowell left her Los Angeles home around noon Wednesday, June 8, in her gray Cadillac to…
Idyllwild’s Mountain Community Patrol has expanded their surveillance role to include residential areas, specifically daytime patrols of around 31 Idyllwild properties listed as abandoned, foreclosed or bank owned. So far, MCP patrols have discovered two of the 31 occupied, even though the foreclosed properties they are tasked to inspect are supposed to be vacant. “We…