Hill businesses and institutions that will be closed Friday, Dec. 25, to observe Christmas are: • Area post offices (closes noon Thursday) • BBVA Compass Bank • Fairway Market • Fern Creek Medical Center (closes noon Thursday) • Fern Valley Water District (also Thursday) • Hemet Unified School District (also Thursday) • Idyllwild Health Center…

Because of the Labor Day holiday, the Sept. 5 Town Crier will hit the newsstands and be mailed to subscribers Thursday of next week. The advertising deadline for that issue is noon Tuesday, Sept. 3. The news deadline is 10 a.m. the same day. For more information, call 951-659-2145.

For the second year in a row Idyllwild School has bettered previous year Academic Performance Index scores by more than 20 points. This year Idyllwild students posted an API score of 896, a gain of 23 points from last year. Local students posted one of the highest scores in the Hemet Unified School District and…