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Idyllwild Invidivisible part of nationwide movement
By Idyllwild Town Crier
Nearly 140 people attended the Idyllwild Indivisible meeting at St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church Monday night. This group of concerned locals is dedicated to the advancement of sustainable economic, environmental and social justice. The group, at its first meeting two weeks ago, divided into three subgroups to address and create plans for action in each of the three areas (economic, environmental, and social justice). The budding group has already outgrown the church and the Rainbow Inn.









At the Nov. 21 Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) meeting, Jazz in the Pines Logistic Director Ted Cummings informed the directors that festival planners do not plan to continue their Jazz and Jambalaya Saturday night dinner and entertainment. This will also eliminate any conflict with the in-town Marshall Hawkins jazz concert which the Chamber sponsored…
Riverside County returned to the purple tier after the Stay-at-Home Order was lifted. Visit https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/, to get reacquainted with the purple tier restrictions. The state has shut down and reopened businesses multiple times since the first Stay-at-Home Order in March, leaving many small businesses, who have been able to keep their doors open, struggling to…
Three collisions occurred on highways 74 and 243 over the last week and a half, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Matt Napier.On March 28 at 8:40 a.m., James Robert Phillips, 72 of Hemet, was driving his silver 1999 Honda Accord southbound on Highway 243 north of Saunders Meadow Road at approximately 30…
The Amgen bike road race will close Highway 74 on Monday, May 13, for two hours in both directions as part of a rolling closure. The race begins in Murrieta at 10:30 a.m. and comes up 74 from Hemet, through Mountain Center to Garner Valley and the desert below. Commuters in either direction should be…
The San Diego Zoo Global, a not-for-profit organization that operates the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, continued its efforts to restore a stable and thriving population of Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs (MYLF) in the San Jacinto Mountains. Earlier this month, a team of scientists, led by Dr. Debra Shier, associate director…
Jenny Kirchner has won a second award for the Nov. 7, 2013 Town Crier photo of a soccer game at Idyllwild School. This award is for honorable mention from the National Newspaper Association. She won second place for the same photo earlier this year in the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspapers Contest. “While I…