The Rotary Club works so hard putting together a great Independence Day Parade and now a Family Freedom Festival afterward. Chuck Weisbart (and Bob Parish in the past) and volunteers (Mountain Community Patrol, too) deserve huge kudos and hugs for how they pull together our community every year in this fun celebration. They took much…
A steady diet of lizards may explain why the Southern Pacific rattlesnake species in this area has such a highly toxic venom, said a local expert. Dr. William Hayes, professor of biology at Loma Linda University, said research in the San Jacinto, San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains show that the snake’s venom is unusually…
Better Wildlife Control owner Tracy Phillipi said he has captured 25 rattlesnakes on residents’ property in the Idyllwild-Pine Cove area this week. He said one was a speckled and the others all Southern Pacifics, one of the most dangerously venomous snakes to humans and other animals in California. Even more frightening is that seven of…
Better Wildlife Control owner Tracy Phillipi said he has captured 19 rattlesnakes on residents’ property in the Idyllwild-Pine Cove area this week. Five were caught Wednesday. He said one was a speckled and the 18 others all Southern Pacifics, one of the most dangerously venomous snakes to humans and other animals in California. Even more…
Last August, Idyllwild Water District customers ousted two directors, one long-standing, in an election in favor of two new candidates for the IWD Board of Directors. Obviously, you spoke that you desired change. And maybe you felt a great success in that action, and trust that all is in good hands now. You would be…
Idyllwild Water District’s Mission Statement: To provide reliable water and sewer service in a safe, cost-effective and environmentally sound manner in accordance with the community needs. Besides Idyllwild School facilities, the Idyllwild Community Playground is one of the most used recreational sites in town. It meets some of the community’s needs. The community needs the…
The Town Crier’s Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award 2016 contest is over and though all three sets of nominees — Jerry Holldber, Janet Murasko/Robert Hewitt and Christina Nordella — received numerous votes, the overwhelming victors were Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild volunteers Murasko and Hewitt. The two have stood at the helm of Animal Rescue…
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.6-magnitude tremor at 10:02 a.m. Thursday. The temblor was located 4.3 miles southeast of Yucca Valley. No damage has been reported.
Many of you may not know that the Town Crier is as old as Idyllwild Arts. Our first issue printed in November 1946 and we are working out plans to celebrate our 70th year later with readers and advertisers invited. I love looking through past Town Criers and often get lost in reading old stories…
Tuesday night, we not only inched, but leapt a vital step toward building the Idyllwild Community Center because of Supervisor Chuck Washington. This is much like when the former Supervisor Jeff Stone took a decades-old movement to expand our local library and pushed it forward so we now enjoy not just more space, but modern…
