
Downtown Idyllwild Saturday, Dec. 23, saw hundreds of tourists visiting the village.
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Downtown bustling
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Downtown Idyllwild Saturday, Dec. 23, saw hundreds of tourists visiting the village.
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
A recent arrival in Idyllwild, David Elliot Bradish, 80, left his new residence on North Circle in Idyllwild in the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 26 to walk his dog Ginger. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department press release, Bradish suffers from stage two Alzheimer’s. News sped quickly throughout the town, with residents alerted by…
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, Jan. 9 to Jan. 15, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Jan. 9 — Medical aid, Idyllmont Drive, Idyllwild. Jan. 11 — Flammable gas or liquid, Cedar Drive, Idyllwild. Jan. 12 — Smoke or odor removal, Pine Crest Avenue, Idyllwild. Jan. 12…
Death Row Appeal: Legal Battles Continue Over Esperanza Fire Convictions In March 2009, Raymond Lee Oyler was found guilty of arson, igniting the Esperanza Fire in October 2006. The jury also found him guilty of the murder of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters. Three died at the fire site and two, including Mark Loutzenhiser of…
Cal Trans has started resurfacing Highway 74. Delays going to Hemet have occurred over the past several weeks. The first phase of the project, from Marshall Avenue to Hurkey Creek in Hemet, should be finished Friday, May 3. However the overall project will not be completed until the first week of June, according to Joy…
The Mountain Fire is the second largest fire in California this year, only the Powerhouse Fire in the Angeles National Forest measuring 30,200 acres was bigger, by about 10 percent. The third largest was the Chariot Fire in the Cleveland National Forest at 7,000 acres. Monday, July 15, began sunny and hot with clear skies….
Young Idyllwild nonprofit is taking pledges in effort to buy Town Hall, since the 1940s a community center for town activities, is for sale by the Johnson family – the family who was instrumental in deeding the land and organizing the construction of the longtime village meeting place. The late Gerald E. Johnson envisioned a…