By Becky Clark
Editor
The Riverside County Coroner’s Office reported that Fred Robles, 45, of Idyllwild, was found dead in a ravine near Highway 243 about 0.4 miles south of Westley Street in Banning Wednesday, Nov. 1.
It was unknown when Robles died. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said the cause of death was blunt trauma due to a single-vehicle traffic crash.
The Idyllwild Rotary Club has again made a significant contribution to the Idyllwild HELP Center. On Tuesday, May 16, President Roland Gaebert and Past President Chuck Weisbart delivered 300 pairs of Bob’s Clogs to the HELP Center. “It is a fun opportunity and great potential,” said HELP Center Executive Director Colleen Meyer. “I know it…
As a follow-up to the Town Crier’s story about the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority’s (SAWPA) plan to explore the use of a weather modification program to augment rainfall in Southern California, Idyllwild Water District (IWD) invited Mark Norton, SAWPA water resources and planning manager, to discuss the concept and pilot project at IWD’s Dec….
Gary Sharman, assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Mountain Center, oversees The Food Ministry that happens from 1-2 p.m. every Thursday at the church, 29375 Highway 243. For eight years, Calvary Chapel Mountain Center has helped individuals and families keep their cupboards and refrigerators stocked with food. “I think because of word of mouth, we’ve increased…
Although the headline presentation at the monthly Mountain Emergency Services Committee meeting last week was about new California Highway Patrol-related laws, questions and heightened interest centered around weather-related issues. Caltrans was well represented at the meeting, along with a Hemet Unified School District safety representative, representatives from Mountain Disaster Preparedness and Marsha Kennedy, chair of…
The problems presented in the approval of the fiscal year 2017-18 Riverside County budget were not unexpected. In October 2015, the Board of Supervisors recognized that revenue was growing at a much slower pace than expected costs for county services, especially public safety. Nearly two years ago, former Executive Officer Jay Orr recommended that the…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that will allow terminally ill Californians to obtain medication to aid in dying, making California the fifth state to permit patients to terminate their lives. No longer will California “… make it a crime for a dying person to end his life, no matter how great his pain or suffering”…
