
Second place winner of the IWD essay contest Lennon Aramburo shown with his submission and President Charles Schelly. PHOTO BY PETER SZABADI
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Second place winner of the IWD essay contest Lennon Aramburo shown with his submission and President Charles Schelly. PHOTO BY PETER SZABADI
By Stephanie YostIdyllwild Community Center The nonprofit San Jacinto Mountain Community Center Inc. (SJMCC), doing business as the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC), broke ground at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12 at a public ceremony at the construction site, located immediately to the left of the Idyllwild Community Playground and above the Butterfield Amphitheater. ICC operates…
Attendees at the April Pine Cove Property Owners Association meeting heard from state and county law enforcement officials. Capt. Mike Alvarez of the California Highway Patrol’s San Gorgonio office spoke about CHP’s focus on distracted driving this month and local road conditions. Capt. Leonard Purvis of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Hemet Station discussed several…
The Manzanita Fire, burning east of Highway 79 in Lamb Canyon, grew to 5,800 acres by mid-Tuesday and was 20 percent contained as of press time. Currently, more than 1,300 firefighters, including the Idyllwild Fire Department, are combating the blaze. Three helicopters and eight aircraft are providing air attack. The fire started Monday afternoon. The…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt boundaries (Map F) for the supervisorial districts beginning with next spring’s primary election and the November general election. The vote was 4-1 with Supervisor Manuel Perez (District 4) the opposing vote. In future elections, Pine Cove, Idyllwild, Mountain Center and Garner Valley to just south of…
On April 19, Ira Robert Ellis, 37, of Poppet Flats, had two hearings before Judge Becky Dugan in Department 41, Riverside, of the Riverside County Superior Court. The first was a Marsden/Sanchez hearing in which Ellis, who was represented by a deputy public defender, asserted that he had been denied his right to effective counsel….
The Mount San Jacinto State Park received the Sponsor of the Year award from the California Conservation Corps (CCC) during a ceremony held on Jan. 26. Sector Superintendent Garratt Aitchison and District Superintendent Ron Krueper accepted the award on behalf of the park staff. “I was pleased to hear that during the nomination and voting…