Highway 243, with traffic control, opens Nov. 1 At a town meeting Tuesday, Aug. 27, Caltrans Chief of Public and Media Affairs for District 8 Terri Kasinga announced that Highway 74, between Valle Vista and Mountain Center, would be open 24 hours a day with a pilot car beginning Friday, Aug. 30. Starting Nov. 1,…
As many know, the Idyllwild Post Office lobby is closed for repairs. The anticipated shut down was expected to run from Aug. 19 to Aug. 27. However, the repairs ran longer than expected due to asbestos abatement. The Town Crier contacted Eva Jackson with United States Postal Service Corporate Communications asking what abatement/construction was occurring. …
Plans include multiple options in case of emergency Roads were not the only topic at the latest Caltrans meeting that brought the town of Idyllwild some good news. Emergency preparedness and response were topics that followed the announcement of the expanded hours for Highway 74 and future reopening of Highway 243. The road closures this…
Strawberry Creek and beautiful gardens featured On Sept. 14, the Idyllwild Area Historical Society (IAHS) will host its 19th-annual home tour. It will include five homes with the oldest home built in 1927 and the newest home, with magnificent views, built in 2004, said Charlotte Groty, president of the IAHS. Strawberry Creek is the focus…
Confusion over status of radio meter reading system purchase Miscommunication between the Idyllwild Water District (IWD) board of directors and General Manager Michael Creighton was on display at the Aug. 21 board meeting. The first discrepancy occurred when the board was considering the purchase of a radio system to read the district’s water meters. However,…
IFPD requests property tax advance Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) was on the Aug. 27 Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda for property tax advancement and a new dispatch contract. The board approved the advance property tax payment of $400,000 to IFPD. This will help the district’s cash flow until winter. From July through…
Carbon plant doing its job The July water samples from Fern Valley Water District’s granulated activated carbon (GAC) plant yielded unexpected and strange results, General Manager Victor Jimenez told the directors at the Aug. 23 board meeting. “There must have been a bottle mix up at the lab,” he began. The GAC filters remove the…
Idyllwild School has a new reading intervention teacher. This is Inh Chomthanath’s first year as a reading teacher, but she has 13 years experience as a classroom teacher. This is also Chomthanath’s first year with the Hemet Unified School District (HUSD). She moved to California from North Carolina to be closer to her husband’s mother,…
Elyse Snyder is Idyllwild School’s new middle school mathematics teacher. It has only been a few years since she left graduate school, but her dedication to the educational profession and to Idyllwild students, specifically, cannot be questioned. Snyder lives in Banning! She has to take Highway 79 through Lamb Canyon, and then through Hemet to…
‘Mindfulness is a great tool’ For those who care about their personal health and their interpersonal relations and want to improve them, Val Velez is prepared to offer actions that will help you achieve those goals. Mindfulness and meditation are simple tools that anyone can adopt and she is trained to share these tools with…
