Shelley Kibby honored as employee of the year

Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Reserve Deputy Barney Brause met with a large group of Fern Valley residents to discuss the Sheriff’s Neighborhood Watch Program. Brause is the department’s trainer for the Idyllwild and Pine Cove area. The Thursday, June 21, meeting was Brause’s first Watch meeting since being certified as trainer by Hemet Station Administrative…

According to San Bernardino National Forest Public Affairs Officer Zach Behrens, the McCall Fire broke out Saturday at 4:23 p.m. The fire started 1 mile west of McCall Park Road and Highway 74. Crews from the U.S. Forest Service, Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire and Idyllwild Fire Protection District responded quickly to extinguish the blaze. By…

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…

Hemet High Principal Emily Shaw specifically threatened Last week, Hemet High School became another target of the aftermath from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting Feb. 14. This is just one of several local schools being threatened. On Tuesday, a student scribbled a threat on the stall in a girls’ bathroom at HHS. Not only was…