You’ve probably noticed that with the warmer weather visitors have been swarming our Hill each weekend — and Hill businesses are advertising again. Our inns get free Town Criers and other TC publications for each room, and our off-the-Hill Members often bring their Town Criers with them when they come visit. And if they left…

Well, we’re entering a new year, and none of us knows how long COVID is going to be with us. Now we have to deal with a new, more contagious Omicron variant — and the number of folk still unvaccinated.So, once again, we thank the essential workers in our community who keep on serving us…

            The U.S. Forest Service announced that it is planning to proceed with its scheduled prescribed burn on Thomas Mountain in Garner Valley next week. The project’s goal is creation of community-scale defensible space and enhanced forest health.             “On Monday, fire crews plan to conduct a test burn and, if all goes well, they…

Two collisions occurred on Highway 243 in about one hour of each other last Thursday, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Matt Napier.On Thursday, Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m. Jennifer Nicole Brown, 20 of Hemet, was driving her white 2019 Nissan Sentra south on Highway 243 just north of Highway 74 at an…