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The Town Crier’s founder, Ernie Maxwell, noted the changing seasons and the tides of history in editorials and occasional items. Maxwell’s Thanksgiving thoughts are as apt and meaningful today as the day they were written. In 1948, under the headline “Cause for Thanksgiving,” he wrote: “First, for the precious privilege of living in these mountains;…
A power outage affected the wider Idyllwild area beginning at 7:44 a.m. Monday, Jan. 25. Affected areas included most of Idyllwild, Pine Cove and along Highway 243 to Round Robin Drive past the Alandale Guard Station. Parts of Garner Valley also experienced the outage, which rolled out at slightly different intervals and ended roughly one…
Law enforcement officers were in Garner Valley today doing a marijuana eradication on Thomas Mountain. Photos by JP Crumrine
Rechelle Andrews, 40 of Hemet, lost control of her 2006 Yamaha motorcycle Sunday on Highway 243 near Marion View Drive and clipped the back of an oncoming car. Andrews complained of pain and was transported by the Idyllwild Fire Medic Unit to a Mercy Air ambulance and onto Desert Regional Medical Center. No one…
Many of our readers — particularly older readers — tell us they want to read a “real” ink-on-paper newspaper they can hold in their hands rather than an online version. Well, we have to tell you, the luxury of a continued ink-on-paper issue is costing the Town Crier an estimated more than $60,000 a year…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, June 3 to 9. Idyllwild • June 3 — Miscellaneous criminal, 1:01 a.m., Cedar St. Handled by deputy. • June 3 — Found property, 1:14 p.m., address undefined. Handled by deputy. • June 4 — Suspicious vehicle, 8:19…