Preparing for next year’s budget Members of County Service Area 38’s (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee began preparation of its fiscal year 2018-19 budget, which begins July 1. The committee, last week, reviewed the status of several already approved and funded projects, and its current financial balance before discussing some ideas for next fiscal year. At…

Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…

Concern over fire danger regarding the size of the green waste (vegetation) pile at the Idyllwild Transfer Station prompted Mike Esnard, president of the Mountain Communities Fires Safe Council Board of Directors, to contact Waste Management Inc., the company the county contracts to manage the station. Said Esnard in his letter to Sharon Davis at…