Phyllis Mueller has long served as caretaker for the Idyllwild Christmas sequoia — coordinating and often providing water, mulch, arborist spray and prayers — coordinating with arborist John Huddleston who volunteered his professional time to assist Mueller’s efforts to save the tree. “The tree has made improvement this year over last,” said Mueller, who founded…

Idyllwild Community Fund (ICF) announces its Advisory Board elected for 2024. This working group includes several new and returning members recruited throughout 2023, representing a healthy cross-section of the Idyllwild community. Officers are President Nancy Beddingfield (Idyllwild Library, volunteer tutor); Vice President Annie Weaver (Idyllwild Help Center board, Idyllwild resident 40-plus year; Secretary Molly Coyner…

A man, possibly with a gun, was reported near the creek across from Idyllwild School at 2:45 p.m. according to a recorded message sent out to Idyllwild School parents and guardians. The school was placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. At around 3:18 p.m., the lockdown was lifted…

Our readers must decide On June 28, 2013, our small, close corporation purchased the Town Crier, which had not made any money during the previous four-and-one-half years. We had one objective: to save the newspaper on our Hill. We could not imagine our community without one. Three weeks later, our online coverage of the Mountain…