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PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD

PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD

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By Idyllwild Town Crier





The Hemet Unified School District (HUSD) Board of Trustees sent back for administrative consideration a proposal to revise the 2012-2013 school calendar to include a three-week winter break. The motion to revise the school calendar from the existing two-week winter break failed for lack of a motion to approve. Prior to the board’s action, Idyllwild…
By Jack & Becky ClarkCo-publishers The Town Crier has been significantly impacted by the COVID epidemic. Like almost all newspapers, we have experienced a serious decline in revenues from advertising during these hard times.So, we must rely to an ever-greater extent on our readers — both for the moral force to continue providing local journalism…
Pine Cove Water District has canceled its April 10 meeting. The next scheduled meeting is May 8. A public hearing on the agency’s standby rates is planned for the June 12 meeting.
All three of the Hill’s local water districts — Fern Valley, Idyllwild and Pine Cove — rely on groundwater for their customers. For PCWD, groundwater is the exclusive water source; for the other two districts, diversions from local streams also are a source. While none of the local districts has expressed any concern about the…
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for from 3 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, due to strong winds and low humidity in this area, as well as others in Southern California. However, a Southern California Edison media spokesperson said SCE has no plans to shut down power to the Hill…
Oct. 13, 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 446. Now cursive writing or joined italics will be included as part of the educational program for grades one through six. Although it was never formally dropped, writing instruction, particularly for cursive, waned as the use of laptop computers and tablets grew within the school environment….