
PHOTO BY BONNIE KEEFE
Chili cookoff
By Idyllwild Town Crier


As mentioned before, we have done about all the internal economizing we can do now, so your Memberships are all the more important to us. You Town Crier Members are crucial to the TC’s continued operation.Many Hill businesses are reopening or extending their hours during the next weeks, and, of course, they will want to…
On March 8, John MacLean will discuss his book “The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57” at the Rustic Theatre. MacLean spoke to the Town Crier, Sunday, Feb. 24, about the book and his writing on wildland fires. This is the second part of that interview.
Nearly seven months after two men were arrested for a triple homicide that occurred eight years ago, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all the charges against Robert Lars Pape and Cristin Conrad Smith. In March, a grand jury indicted Pape and Smith, but because he was under 17 years old at the…
New ordinance replaces 1957 version More than a year later, the revision of Pine Cove Water District’s original water policy ordinance has been completed and accepted. At the May 10 meeting, Ordinance 9, a new set of rules and regulations for setting water policies, was unanimously approved and replaces Ordinance 4, originally adopted March 16,…
Just a reminder that if you are a Town Crier Member, you’re not limited to the print-on-paper version, you also have access to the TC’s online versions, which are real, complete newspapers you can read on computer monitor, laptop, tablet or cellphone. But we must know your email address so you can be included in…
The Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council (MCFSC) is the recipient of a new and generous state grant to help improve and create defensible space on the Hill, and also to remove more dead and dying trees from within the Hill neighborhoods. The grant’s amount is $3.62 million and the funding will be available for five…