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Faith Riley teaches Mia Stella how logs were stripped for making cabins at Pioneer Town part of the Lemon Lily Festival at the Nature Center on Saturday. Photo by Barbara Reese










This week I’d like to introduce Pat Boss, our project manager for Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council. Those of you who have been around this mountain for any length of time, and I’m talking 50-plus years or more, may have known him as a lad wreaking havoc in his youth. He had bit parts in…
The Finance Committee for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District has begun discussing and preparing a tax measure that may go before voters in November. The committee believes IFPD’s budget is inadequate to fund programs and initiatives in the future. At the Feb. 24 meeting, committee members focused first on the need for more revenue for…
Although not a record for attendance (that was set in 2009), the 2013 Idyllwild 5K and 10K Run and Fitness Walk did set record finish times.
One day in 1997, Becky Clark, just promoted editor-in-chief of the Town Crier, was paying Town Crier bills when she came upon one for a few hundred dollars for dues to the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA). Not being sure what that bill was about, she investigated. She found that the CNPA existed to promote…
One injury crash on Hill roads took place over the last week. At 6:20 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, Dixie Harlow, 84, of Idyllwild, was driving her 2013 silver Saturn Vue southbound on Highway 243 when she made a left turn onto Saunders Meadow Road. At the same time, Robert Rogers, 83, and also from Idyllwild,…
Idyllwild will soon welcome a new artisan bakery: Almost Heaven. Gabrielle and Richard Marcin, who have been supplying stores in Alpine with artisan baked goods for the last year, will begin hosting “pop-up” bake sales in the parking lot and until their new space in Victorian Square starting this Saturday, April 12—a preview of what’s…