The National Weather Service officials met with Town Crier owner and co-publisher Jack Clark (left) about establishing a NWS weather recording station in Idyllwild at the paper Tuesday morning. Noel Isla (center), observing program leader, discussed the requirements and equipment and was accompanied by Brett Albright (right).

Last month, a burglary occurred at the Idyllwild Post Office, though postal officials would not elaborate about everything that may have been taken or even how it occurred. But one of the victims, Barbara Maring, wrote to the Town Crier about how the incident has affected her and her husband. They had written checks to…

Although the National Weather Service announced last week that it forecasted a 70-percent chance that an El Niño pattern will continue in summer 2015, the U.S. Forest Service Predictive Services unit added that an unfavorable warmer-than-normal water temperatures developed off shore during the winter, which is indicative of a “a Modoki (Japanese for similar, but…