
PHOTO BY SEBASTIAN VALE
Honoring 9/11
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Editor’s note: John Huddleston, arborist with Precision Tree Experts on the Hill, is caring for the trees at the new Idypark. He responded to the Town Crier’s question as to why the area is roped off with orange netting. Below are his words. The Pine Cove Water District has donated three Sequoiadendron giganteum to the…
The devastating six-year storm, which passed over Southern California this weekend, treated the Hill very kindly. The damaging high winds and flash floods that occurred throughout the region Friday and Saturday passed north of the San Jacinto Mountains. The gentle rain simply added to the total precipitation this year. The U.S. Forest Service’s Ranger Station…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Wednesday to Sunday, March 16 to 22. Idyllwild • March 16 — Gas leak, Hwy. 243 and N. Circle Dr., 2:05 p.m. • March 17 — Medical aid, Pine Crest Ave., 4:22 a.m. • March 17 — Walk-in medical aid, 12:55 p.m. • March…
Riverside City police made two arrests in Idyllwild Sunday. The first was a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run collision on Wednesday, July 15. Lisa Marie Brown (aka Sanchez) was arrested for vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run death involving Donald Thomas Smith, 48, of Moreno Valley. Smith was walking westbound along the emergency lane of westbound Alessandro,…
Idyllwild Fire Here is one of the calls Idyllwild Fire responded to recently. • Dec. 5 — Medical aid, 9:45 a.m., 54000 block of N. Circle Dr. Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Here is one of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire responded to recently. • Dec. 10 — Medical aid, 1:57 p.m., Crestview Dr. Sheriff’s…
Two collisions occurred on Highway 243 in about one hour of each other last Thursday, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Matt Napier.On Thursday, Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m. Jennifer Nicole Brown, 20 of Hemet, was driving her white 2019 Nissan Sentra south on Highway 243 just north of Highway 74 at an…