Watch: FWB Fest 2025 in Idyllwild
By Michael Ferro

Cal Fire, in cooperation with California State Parks, will be conducting a prescribed burn of brush and slash piles in the Mt. San Jacinto State Park off Highway 243. The project was to begin Tuesday, Dec. 13, and continue throughout the week, weather permitting. The final burn date will be determined by permissive burn day…
IFPD legal counsel agrees bar may be lowered Late last month, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s commission got some positive news; however, it may have limited ability to capitalize on it. The commission’s legal counsel provided an opinion that supported concerns in the political world and musings in the media following the state’s Supreme Court…
San Jacinto District Ranger Laurie Rosenthal’s speech for the baseball tournament in observance of the Esperanza fifth anniversary ..
Activity for the 2026 Congressional Election for District 41, which is still 18 months in the future, continued last week. Tim Myers, a lifelong Southern Californian and Grammy-nominated musician-turned-entrepreneur, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in California’s 41st Congressional District. In his press release, Myer wrote, “I was born and raised in Corona –…
At the fire briefing for the Cranston Fire this morning, the Incident Management Team expects to start repopulating Idyllwild-area communities some time today. They gave no times. They’re expecting thunderstorms today and that may affect what time re-population will begin. The repopulating will only happen from the Banning side as Highway 74 remains closed. Also,…
Did you think advertising in the Town Crier was just advertising to local residents? I just did a count of Town Crier Members — all 600 plus of them. Fifty-two percent of Town Crier Members are off-Hill residents — folk who are such strong Hill fans that they took out TC Memberships, but who have…