Local crime has fallen since last year, despite the recent break-ins, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Waters. He and Hemet Station Capt. Ray Woods told the community, at a Town Hall meeting Thursday night, to call and report anything strange or unusual. He stressed that calling the Sheriff’s Department to report something unusual…
Receiving water when you take a table at local restaurants or freshly washed daily linens at hotels or inns are among the changes the state expects businesses to make in order to adapt to the current drought conditions. On Tuesday, March 17, the State Water Resources Control Board recommended that customers at restaurants and inns…
Water-recycling facility may be in Idyllwild’s future Although Tom Lynch, Idyllwild Water District general manager, said, “We continue to be on the precipice of Stage 3 [water emergency],” a decision to go to the tightest water conservation measures remains in the future. But the state appears to have agreed to help IWD manage future drought…
At 11 a.m. Monday, March 23, a motorcycle driven by Zachary Thibodeaux, 18, of Indio, collided head-on with a vehicle containing a family and two small children.
The Idyllwild grinding facility will resume Saturday operations beginning May 2. On Saturdays, operations will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The facility is located at the 5,000-foot marker, one mile south of the Idyllwild Transfer Station on Highway 243. The grinding facility accepts items such as wood waste and wood infected with the…
After being in the mix near the top through three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Brendan Steele suffered a tough 4-over-par 36-40 — 76 on Sunday, including a pair of double bogeys on the back nine, that dropped him to a tie for 35th place by the tournament’s end. The native Idyllwilder did post…
Wednesday, March 18, the Town Crier reported that, after a Tuesday meeting with National Weather Service officials here in Idyllwild, the Town Crier had agreed to purchase automatically reporting Davis Pro weather station equipment to become the official Idyllwild NOAA/NWS COOP station in place of Idyllwild Fire. On Friday, March 20, Noel Isla, COOP program…
The National Weather Service officials met with Town Crier owner and co-publisher Jack Clark (left) about establishing a NWS weather recording station in Idyllwild at the paper Tuesday morning. Noel Isla (center), observing program leader, discussed the requirements and equipment and was accompanied by Brett Albright (right).
Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department/County Office of Emergency Services is committed to providing the best public protection possible and to always work to improve community life and property safety. We will analyze what is best to reduce risks for a community, report what is best, and work hard to implement what is best for life and property risk reduction. This is just what we have always done and will continue to do for the San Jacinto/Santa Rosa mountains area.
