Recent interview with Cranston Fire PIO Kate Kramer
By Idyllwild Town Crier
Repair work at Bee Canyon, Forest Road No. 5S07, will occur over the next month. However, the below-mentioned dates are subject to change due to weather conditions. The repairs are a continuation from the work after last spring’s storms. “The road that traverses Bee Canyon at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains will close…
The Idyllwild Town Crier and Visitors Center has applied for a small business grant through Mission Mainstreet Grants, sponsored by Google and Chase. The grant is for $150,000 and, if granted, would be used to update equipment, improve and sustain our visitors center and invest in our building, which would lower our overhead and help…
Leslie Schelly honored by board The Hemet Unified School District Board of Trustees held its Sept. 4 meeting at Idyllwild School. After the roll call, Vicky Lovett, an eighth-grade student at Idyllwild School, led the board and audience in the “Pledge of Allegiance.” The first action of the evening was the announcement that the board…
In March the Town Crier presented an interview with Mike Feyder, the president of Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP), the first in a series profiling the different working groups within MDP. This week we share a conversation with Ron Sabala, who is director of the group’s CERT program, the Community Emergency Response Team. CERT groups help…
Former board’s lawsuit dismissed On April 4, the Idyllwild Water District dismissed its litigation against current Director Steve Kunkle. “I’m relieved that it isn’t costing the taxpayers any more for a fruitless lawsuit,” said Kunkle. in July 2016, the previous board filed the case alleging Kunkle’s “negligence” created an environmental incident which the district had…
Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…