Membership renewals approaching By Jack Clark Co-publisher and General Counsel Yes, the Town Crier is for sale. But, no, we’re not in a hurry. We are committed to finding the right publishers who will continue a real newspaper for our Hill — a paper that will carry on as a community watchdog publishing the bad…

Bob McCullough, longtime manager of Idyllwild’s emergency radio station WNKI (1610 AM), is hanging it up. McCullough, a direct link to WNKI founders George Covington and Carol Lindholm, received a charge from Covington early in the station’s life. “He told me if anything happened to him, that I should keep the station running, and that…

The message is out that community newspapers — throughout our state and all over our country — have been closing down because of serious decreases in advertising revenue.But we remain convinced that advertising in a local newspaper — both ink-on-paper and online — is the most focused means for local businesses and organizations to connect…

At the direction of the California Public Utilities Commission, Southern California Edison (SCE) conducted a Public Safety Power Shut-off (PSPS) event last week in Mountain Center, causing residents to be without power for multiple days. According to SCE’s website — when there are potentially dangerous weather conditions in fire-prone areas — they may call a…

Riverside County Sheriff’s Investigator Sgt. Robert Duckett, Hemet Station, reported early Tuesday that a gray 2015 Ford F-150 truck belonging to local residient Shane Stewart has been located, along with several other stolen vehicles, in Anza. Investigators were on the scene as this was being written. The theft was reported on Tuesday, Dec. 8, but…