Some 150 residents packed into the Idyllwild Library on Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, to hear about the forecast for an El Niño fall and winter, bound for Southern California.
VIDEO: Idyllwild’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness presents “Prepared for El Niño” on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
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Some 150 residents packed into the Idyllwild Library on Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, to hear about the forecast for an El Niño fall and winter, bound for Southern California.
The Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) building project next to the Idyllwild Community Playground, which has been in the works for more than twenty years, is finally near completion. Except for a few final “punch list” items remaining under the HUD building contract, ICC’s combined CDBG grant through HUD, as well as additional Riverside County grants,…
Chief Hewitt was born and raised in Southern California. Within two weeks of his graduation from Duarte High School in Los Angeles County, near the San Gabriel Mountains, Hewitt was on the Oak Grove Hot Shots team. That was the first step in his career goal of becoming a firefighter. From the age of 5 or 6, Hewitt knew that is what he wanted to become.
Editor: I agree with everything Nathaniel West wrote about structure-fed wildfires. I believe fire abatement is like a chain and no stronger than the weakest link. That weakest link, my friend, is our fire-trap homes. It doesn’t make sense to denude the forest floor and deprive the soil’s ability to retain moisture only to live…
Special districts may be moved to statewide elections The last August election for members of the Pine Cove Water District may have occurred this week. The Aug. 29 election was conducted with mail-in ballots. (The results are online now and will be in the Sept. 4 issue of the Town Crier.) When there are more…
Measles have arrived in Riverside County. On April 3, the County Public Health agency reported that an adult county resident tested positive for measles. According to health officials with Riverside University Health System, this is the first confirmed case of measles in Riverside County since 2018. As of March 31, the California Department of Public Health reported…
The Fern Valley Water District (FVWD) had its first meeting with five board members last week since two of its members resigned — one in August and the other in October. The boards’ members are now Richard Schnetzer, Walter Bonneau (replaced Trischa Clark who sold her house), Gary Erb (replaced James Rees), Robert Krieger and…