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By Idyllwild Town Crier


One traffic incident occurred on Hill roads over the last week. On Saturday, Feb. 11, an unknown vehicle struck a parked 2016 Ford Escape, copper in color, parked 300 feet south of North Circle Drive on Cedar Street, according to the California Highway Patrol. The time of the crash was not documented because the vehicle…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station did not report responses for last week. Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, July 31 to Aug. 6. Idyllwild • July 31 — Follow-up, address withheld. Handled by deputy. • July 31 — Civil dispute, address undefined. Handled…
“I’m asking how this could happen? What can we do?” William Walker asked the Idyllwild Water District directors at the Sept. 10 board meeting. He was told his meter recorded a 500-gallon use on just one day. IWD called him Friday, Aug. 29, when he was in San Diego, alerting him to unusual usage. “Something…
County Department of Environmental Health is not prepared to reduce groundwater monitoring at the Village Food and Fuel site (Shell Station) for every monitoring well near the site. While DEH agreed to less frequent monitoring for wells off the site, it required the two wells on the site to be monitored quarterly. After submitting the…
The Sept. 9 meeting of the Pine Cove Water District was canceled because of lack of a quorum to conduct business. Board President Robert Hewitt and directors Lou Padula and Joel Palmer were absent. An item on the agenda was a resolution opposing any statewide charge or tax on local water district bills. The Association…
Hydrant service to be extended The County Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee met for the first time in nearly a year. At this point in 2018, the committee was formulating its fiscal year 2018-19 budget. Last week, the committee discussed the status of that budget and began preliminary deliberations over the FY 2019-20…