Editor’s note: Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff met with the editorial and reporting staff of the Idyllwild Town Crier last week. Sheriff Stan Sniff acknowledged the crime rate has been creeping up throughout Riverside County. This is the principal reason he wants to protect his department’s funding and has urged the Board of Supervisors to…

Stone Creek Water was hit by “an avalanche” of difficulties last week, as related by Dr. Leonard and Carolyn Weston, the owners of Stone Creek Water Company, Inc. First, they had allowed firefighters working a house fire near Azalea Trails to use water from Stone Creek’s tank, which drained it. Next, the pump lines froze….

Lucky, a 7-year-old Yorkshire terrier, had very bad luck. He was a pawn caught in an emotional triangle involving great distance, his female owner in Utah, her new truck-driver boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s wife and family in California. But then a team from the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild changed the little Yorkie’s bad luck…