Erec VonSeggern, son of Paul and Merrie VonSeggern of Idyllwild, has been named to Lawrence University’s 2016-17 dean’s list for maintaining a minimum 3.4 cumulative grade point average for the entire academic year. He is a 2013 graduate of Hemet High School. Founded in 1847, Lawrence University in Appletown, Wisconsin, integrates a college of liberal…

Town Crier learned that Tawny Crist, 71, of Banning, formerly of Idyllwild, died in a two-vehicle collision after her car drifted off the roadway, hit a tree, flipped and slid into an oncoming vehicle. Two people in the other car suffered minor injuries. The crash occurred near Lagunitas in Marin County, California, Friday evening.

Brandon Opliger (son of Rocky Opliger, retired US Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest) in the left photo, taken approximately in 1989. Opliger was in an IFPD engine. His mother Lori (Friemoth) Richter worked for IFPD and Brandon was four or five years old. The right-hand photo is Brandon now, age 26, employed with the U.S. Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest, on the Palomar Hotshot Crew, out of Oak Grove Station.