
PHOTO BY PETER SZABADI
Birthday Bash
By Idyllwild Town Crier


CalTrans has announced that there will delays between Idyllwild and Mountain Center from Tuesday, April 22 through Friday, April 25. Flagging and slowing of traffic will occur between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Crews will be installing recessed markers on Highway 243 between its intersection with Hwy. 74 at Mountain Center and Marion Ridge Road…
Businesses in and around our Hill — and that includes Hemet, Beaumont-Banning and the Coachella Valley desert communities — are invited to join with Town Crier members and readers in helping keep a real newspaper serving our community. That’s important for you, too, because there’s no better way to reach members of our community with…
The Idyllwild Garden Club held its first general meeting of the season on Wednesday, April 1st, at the Nature Center. 1st Vice President Lynn Eodice reports that “Members, guests and potential members enjoyed a potluck luncheon of soups, chilis, salads and other homemade foods. A brief meeting followed the luncheon, led by Garden Club president…...
Records available at the state-run Solid Waste Information System (SWIS) website confirm that the county’s Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) knows what many locals have noted: scavenging at the Idyllwild Transfer Station is a daily event, involving both well-equipped individuals with trucks who search the bins during operating hours and just after closing, and “transients” who…
The closest-available unit is now officially the policy of Riverside County, as far as medical service. At an April 3 meeting, which included officials from the county’s Emergency Management and Fire departments, Idyllwild Fire Protection District and American Medical Response, the participants unanimously agreed to the merits of the policy. Its use will begin Tuesday,…
Sentenced to jail On June 10, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jerome Brock sentenced Michael McRae Kellner to two years in county jail for his guilty plea of burglary. The judge then suspended one year of the sentence. Kellner was arrested on May 29. He was charged with multiple burglaries, narcotic possession, receiving stolen property…