
Forest Services Volunteer Association Fire Lookout Dan Roberts is one of the volunteers at Black Mountain Lookout, shown recently. PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Forest Services Volunteer Association Fire Lookout Dan Roberts is one of the volunteers at Black Mountain Lookout, shown recently. PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Aug. 4 to Aug. 10. Idyllwild • Aug. 4 — Found property, 8:04 a.m., Strawberry Valley Dr. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 4 — Suspicious person, 1:38 p.m., address undefined. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 6 — Miscellaneous…
By Jack Clark Co-publisher and General Counsel Fourteen weeks until the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Town Crier’s Membership model. You TC readers could not be more clear. You want to keep a community watchdog, warning of danger, advising of opportunity, challenging authority, praising accomplishment, investigating irregularity, marveling at art, exposing abuse, celebrating…
Around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, one man assaulted another near Mountain Top Liquor Store on Highway 243 in Idyllwild to the degree that the victim required hospitalization. Idyllwild Fire Department Captain Mike Mulhall confirmed that IFPD medics responded at 7:39 p.m. and transported the male victim to Riverside County Regional Medical Center in…
Update: Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to put the Hill in District 4, just before the Town Crier was set to go to print. Story in next week’s paper. The Advisory Redistricting Commission (ARC) as well as the Riverside County Planning Commission met Wednesday, Dec. 1. The commission reviewed the three maps for which the board…
Sophia Dean has been Executive Director at Living Free for a little over a year, during which time she has overseen growth and renewal, reflected in rebranding and a new logo, once again incorporating a horse. In a letter to supporters Dean wrote “The horse had been part of our original 1980’s logo, but removed…
Mark Bacon has been searching for his missing nephew, Scott MichaelHerr, who was last seen near Mountain Center on July 20. Bacon lives inDunsmuir, near Mt. Shasta, and says that Herr lives with a cousin inSeattle. He was visiting his mother who lives in La Quinta and was doingsome side work to get money to…