With the Idyllwild Fire Protection District standing up its emergency siren alert system last week, the newspaper contacted the county about the status of its siren alert system.“I reached out to our team for an update,” wrote Shane Reichardt, senior public information specialist for the county’s Emergency Management Department, in an email Monday morning. “We…

The County Service Area (CSA) 36 Advisory Committee returned to Town Hall for its monthly meetings. Last week’s session was sparsely attended. The fervor and aggressiveness on display at its special July meeting were totally absent. Attendees Kathy Lewis and Dawn Sonnier, acting chair of the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council (ICRC), asked the committee many…

Local fire officials changing The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce held its first meeting of 2019, Wednesday April 10. Attendance was slightly less than normal, due to the current road closures from Hemet and Banning. Several new faces were at the front table. Cal Fire Division Chief Bill Weiser ran the meeting in the absence of…

On Friday afternoon the Idyllwild Town Crier contacted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD) to see if the department had new information regarding the area’s four missing people: Dia Abrams, Rosario Garcia, Roy Prifogle and Melissa Lane. New information regarding the property of Abrams has surfaced. According to CBS Channel 8 out of San Diego,…

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing some changes to the Land Management Plan for the San Bernardino National Forest and requesting the public’s input on these changes. The FS considers these administrative changes to improve its forest monitoring during 2016. The changes modify questions about activities on the forest. The answers require data collection for…