
Photo by Halie Wilson
Santa’s Mail Box is back
By Wilson, Johnny & Halie
Evelyn Teel, 3, is the first to drop her letter to Santa in the North Pole-bound mail box at the Idyllwild Post Office. Helping Santa are post office employees Julie Stanford and Christina Reitz (front), Kelsi Lehman, Postmaster Kelly Gates, Mom Theresa Teel and John Aussenhofer. The mail box will be in the Idyllwild Post Office lobby until Friday, Dec. 12, for children to send Santa their Christmas wishes. Santa allows the Town Crier to print the letters in the Christmas edition for readers to enjoy. Photo by Halie Wilson” width=”720″ height=”480″ /> NORTH POLE MAIL: Evelyn Teel, 3, is the first to drop her letter to Santa in the North Pole-bound mail box at the Idyllwild Post Office. Helping Santa are post office employees Julie Stanford and Christina Reitz (front), Kelsi Lehman, Postmaster Kelly Gates, Mom Theresa Teel and John Aussenhofer. The mail box will be in the Idyllwild Post Office lobby until Friday, Dec. 12, for children to send Santa their Christmas wishes. Santa allows the Town Crier to print the letters in the Christmas edition for readers to enjoy.

Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Tuesday, July 15, through Monday, July 21. Idyllwild • July 15 — Rescue. • July 15 — Public service assistance. • July 16 — Medical aid. • July 17 — Medical aid. • July 18 — Rescue. • July 18 — Two medical…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Tuesday to Monday, Jan. 27 to Feb. 2. Anza • Jan. 30 — Medical aid, 12:41 p.m., one patient. Idyllwild • Jan. 27 — Medical aid, 4:17 p.m., one patient. • Jan. 29 — Medical aid, 2:06 p.m., one patient. • Jan. 30…
Flash flooding across Hughway 74 west of McCall Park Road gushed in front of Town Crier photographer just as she approached, turning her back. Photo by Jenny Kirchner
The Gorgonio Fire, which started near noon Saturday, May 4, scorched nearly 510 acres in the Twin Pines area before being contained Sunday evening. This fire, south of Banning, followed soon after firefighters had contained the Summit Fire, which started Wednesday, May 1, north of Banning. Eventually the Summit Fire burned nearly 3,200 acres. On…
At the Idyllwild Water District (IWD) Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, Sept. 20, a ratepayer complained about the new, higher rates approved in June, and appearing since July on IWD bills. This ratepayer is a single senior citizen “doing one load of laundry a week” and engaging in “no outside irrigation.” Her combined sewer and…
Despite some dissension, the Mile High Radio Club last Thursday approved the agreement for operating local emergency radio station WNKI (1610 AM) that the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission approved at its November meeting. The approval is the culmination of a two-year process of negotiations between the club and IFPD. After the meeting, MHRC President…