

Traffic crash on 243
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Wildfire knows no boundaries. It doesn’t care about religion or politics; it destroys whatever is in its path. Seven homes and five other structures were destroyed in the recent Cranston Fire, along with more than 13,000 acres. Victims of six of the homes lost have GoFundMe websites for those who want to donate to helping…
It’s January and, of course, the influenza season has begun. While headlines and breaking news stories are not calling attention to the annual illness, it is here and spreading. In its weekly “California Influenza Surveillance Report,” the state’s Department of Public Health announced at the end of December that the flu bug is “widely circulating…
The boulder, which has closed Highway 243 since Sunday night, is strongly resisting Caltran’s efforts to reduce it and remove it. The boulder has broken the special equipment Caltrans rented to break it up. The drill on the equipment 50,000-pound excavator equipped with a hydraulic breaker broke today. Calrans does not have an estimate of…
By Clayton Cranford, Cyber Safety CopContributed One of the most exciting aspects of social media for teens is the opportunity to meet and talk to people they don’t know. If you are thinking that this flies in the face of one of the basic safety rules you taught your child when they were little —don’t…
n Feb. 20, the California Air Resources Board announced that the Office of Administrative Law had disapproved the proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation, which the CARB had approved in early November. While the Board’s vote was 12-2, this was a controversial decision. The OAL letter to the CARB indicated two reasons…
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (Cal Fire) has filed a lawsuit against Tarek M. Al-Shawaf, James Nowlin and Donna Nowlin for the costs of fighting the Mountain Fire. Hill residents Lon and Susan Paul, Martin Prevosto, Alisia Fisher, Doug McKellar and MTS&L Inc. aka McKellar Tree Service and Landscaping Inc. have also…