Idyllwild native Brendan Steele put together under-par rounds of66-64-68 to post an 18-under par 198 and win the LIV golf tournament atAdelaide, Australia, by a single stroke. The 41-year-old pocketed a winner’s check of $4 million, plus anotherquarter million he won in the team competition at the same Adelaidetournament. It was Brendan’s first professional win…
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Recently, the Town Crier ran a photo of Pine Cove resident Jon Bechtel receiving honors for having donated blood 1,000 times over a 50-year period. Bechtel and his wife, Joan, married 54 years, relocated from Arizona to California, where he served for 16 years on the sheriff’s search and rescue team in Big Bear. They…
Sunday, Sept. 3, an episode of the “Disappeared” television series entitled “Love and Lies in Idyllwild” aired on national television. DirecTV carried it locally on channel 285, the Investigation Discovery Network. The episode concerned the June 6, 2020, disappearance of Dia Abrams, who at that time owned three properties in Garner Valley, including a 166-acre…
In January 2022, the Town Crier reported that Idyllwild Arts Foundation (IAF) had been sued by a former student alleging sexual harassment by defendant Keith Lewis, a former instructor at Idyllwild Arts Academy. In December, IAF put this lawsuit behind it by settling the matter with the plaintiff by means of Alternative Dispute Resolution. The…
In a grueling 36-hole qualifying day at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles, Brendan Steele posted 33-35-32-34 – 134 to miss by one stroke outright qualifying for the U.S Open, which will be played next week at the Los Angeles Country Club. Instead, he is currently listed as the second alternative player, should two of…
According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, a family from Idyllwild has been missing since early May. Mayra Perez Posadas, 33, and her three daughters, Amayrany Perez Romero, 15, Kaylie Perez Romero, 12, and a 5-year-old whose name is unknown to authorities, are described as being from the Idyllwild area, but were recently staying at…
The March 28 meeting of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Board of Commissioners opened with a bit of a surprise: Commissioner Christina Reitz announced her retirement from the board on the grounds that she would soon be moving from Idyllwild and joining her husband, Patrick Reitz, former IFPD chief and current chief of the…
Coming off a fine tie for second place in his second LIV event at Tucson two weeks ago, Brendan Steele posted a three-under-par score last week in the LIV tournament in Orlando to finish in a tie for 36th place with a $141,000 official-money pay out. In a post-round interview televised by LIV, the native…
Coming off a fine tie-for-fifth finish in Mexico in his very first LIV event followed by a tie for second place in his second event at Tucson two weeks ago, Brendan Steele will tee it up again Friday on the Crooked Cat course at Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge in Orlando, Florida. The…
