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Rotary Ann’s held their annual potluck luncheon to thank local Idyllwild service organizations on Wednesday at the Idyllwild Fire House. Several organizations attended, including the Fire Department, Mountain Disaster Preparedness, and the Woodies. Photo by Barbara Reese


Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz told the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission last week that he plans to ask Riverside County to extend the current fire and medical emergency dispatch contract for another year. While no organizations responded to IFPD’s March Request for Proposal, Reitz said the one-year extension would still allow IFPD to explore…
Editor’s note: Each year, the Town Crier reports the information below for the three local water districts — Fern Valley, Idyllwild and Pine Cove — and the Idyllwild Fire Protection. The FVWD information appeared in the Feb. 1 issue and the IWD information was in the Feb. 8 issue. IFPD will appear next week. Each…
On Wednesday, April 4, at about 5:15 p.m., Dustin Blair, a 40-year-old man from Mira Loma, was riding a copper-colored 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound on Highway 74, just east of Ribbonwood Drive in Mountain Center. The collision occurred near the unincorporated community of Pinyon Pines. Christopher Fife, 46, of Mountain Center, was driving a…
Members of the Riverside County Mountain Rescue Unit helped an exhausted and stranded Pacific Crest Trail hiker to safety. Robert Davis, a 70-year old hiker, from Winchester, Tennessee, was on his first Pacific Crest Trail trek and after a month on the trail, he began to experience fatigue, dehydration and weariness. By Thursday, May 1,…
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…
Vehicles driving Hwy. 243 between South Circle Drive and County Park Road had to wait or go around the scene of a rollover crash today, in which no one was injured. The crash happened when Maria Loutzenhiser lost control of her SUV and it rolled on the Highway around 3:15 this afternoon. The road was…