
Frank White, a volunteer, unloading supplies at the Banning High School Evacuation Center.
Photos by Holly Parsons

Banning High School Evacuation Center
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Frank White, a volunteer, unloading supplies at the Banning High School Evacuation Center.
Photos by Holly Parsons

Idyllwild Fire Here are some of the calls Idyllwild Fire responded to recently. • Dec. 28 — Medical aid, 11:37 a.m. Ernie Maxwell Scenic Trail. • Dec. 28 — Medical aid, 2:11 p.m. Idylbrook Dr. Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Here are two of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire responded to recently. • Dec. 28…
The Town Crier reports on several public agencies that are covered by other media as well. But the Town Crier is the sole monitor of six public agencies on our Hill that are covered by no other media source.Occasionally, the Town Crier has been tasked with reporting on local public agency occurrences we wish had…
Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters, Palm Springs Fire, California Highway Patrol and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a report of an adult female hiker with a rattlesnake bite. The female had been hiking on Skyline Trail in Tahquitz Falls west of Palm Springs for several miles when she…
The Idyllwild-Pine Cove area had one confirmed COVID-19 case as of the 1 p.m. April 3 Riverside University Health System-Public Health website update. On April 6, that number increased to two. The county also held a press conference on April 3 to let people know the four things that need to happen to flatten the…
The Idyllwild Community Fund Advisory Committee completed a successful year, continuing an almost 20-year tradition of providing grants to local nonprofits. In 1996 a local couple, wishing to remain anonymous, provided the initial testamentary gift that would become the Idyllwild Community Fund. Their intention was that interest from the fund would be used to provide,…
At 12:24 p.m. Sunday, May 6, a rear-end collision took place on Highway 74, one-tenth of a mile east of the intersection of Highway 371. Karin Vega, 22 of Mountain Center, while riding west on a green 2013 Kawasaki Ninja traveling 40 miles per hour, struck the rear of a Four Winds trailer attached to…