PHOTOS: Media tours Highway 74 work
Photos by JP Crumrine
Following a press conference at the Cranston Station in Valle Vista the media was invited to tour Highway 74 as work was underway to repair storm damage following the Valentine’s Day storm.








Following a press conference at the Cranston Station in Valle Vista the media was invited to tour Highway 74 as work was underway to repair storm damage following the Valentine’s Day storm.
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s commissioners discussed the means to convince two-thirds of the district’s voters to raise the parcel, or unit fee, last Thursday night. Resolution 237, approved in May 1981, established a fee for fire-suppression services. The fee was based on the size of the parcel. For example, a 3,000-square-foot lot was defined…
Former Riverside County Registrar of Voters (ROV) Rebecca Spencer resigned Sept. 29 after being placed on paid administrative leave from her position at the Sept. 12 board of supervisors’ meeting. In the announcement of Spencer’s resignation, the county said, it had “… entered into a settlement agreement whereby the parties mutually agree that this action…
Melissa Diaz Hernandez has helmed the Town Crier as editor for going on two years now. For the past year, she has championed the causes of missing persons connected with our Hill, each week publishing the information we had on each of the most recent cases and hoping that perhaps some new Town Crier reader…
Late Saturday night, a fuse blew in a Southern California Edison transformer on the Hill. Nearly 370 customers were without power starting about 10:15 p.m. Power was returned to Hill residents over the next 75 minutes. By 11:30 p.m., power was restored to all customers within the affected area, according to an Edison press office….
Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire and the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) are back at it collecting unwrapped toys or sports equipment this season. Drop off the unwrapped items to your local Cal Fire station by Dec. 24 and/or IFPD station by Dec. 19. Toys collected at the IFPD station will go to the Idyllwild HELP…
Photo by Becky Clark A hit-and-run traffic collision about 1 p.m. stopped traffic in both directions at Buckhorn Camp about 2 miles north of Idyllwild on Highway 243. The occupants of the hit vehicle are not injured. The driver of the Toyota truck that appeared to collide with the Audi walked off the scene before…