Adam Schomer is the featured filmmaker for the 2015 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Schomer is being recognized for his documentaries that both excite and reveal. An adventurous documentarian is who Schomer is now, but that’s not where he starts nor finishes. After graduating from Cornell in 1997, Schomer’s adventuring and risk-taking began to evolve. …
Michael Fredric Rose and Siba Rose’s three young children have a tradition each Christmas. For eight years, Aubrey, 13, Zen Lazarus, 12, and Emma 10, have delivered Christmas presents to needy families – first in San Jacinto where Michael was pastor of the Light of Love Chapel and now in Idyllwild. “We wanted the children…
Each year, Santa allows the Town Crier to publish local kid’s letters on their way to the North Pole. Here’s this year’s crop of Christmas correspondence: Dear Santa Claus all I Wont for christmas is a Minecraft horse Set from Angel Dear Santa, I would like a bow and arrows, belts and an…
This year marks the 108th anniversary of probably the most famous Christmas newspaper editorial of all time. It was written by Francis P. Church in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. It was published on Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun. We reprint it each year for the enjoyment of our…
During the Dec. 17 Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting, Riverside County Fire Chief John Hawkins re-emphasized the purpose of the county’s Fire Code Committee he established this past summer. “Several people indicated that they were concerned about the potential fire threats posed by unabated properties which had no structures,” he began. While there is some…
The third winter storm of 2014-15 brought less than an inch of rain to the Hill; however, some areas did see snow for a day. These rains have reduced the drought conditions from extreme to severe, according to the National Weather Service’s Drought Monitor website. The U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Ranger Station recorded 0.42 inches…
For several years, members of the Mountain Area Safety Taskforce have been working with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research to evaluate whether fuels treatments that leave chipped woody material behind are contributing to fire abatement or creating a fire problem. The lead investigator, Dr. Pamela E. Padgett, research plant physiologist at the research…
Two minor earthquakes occurred Monday night. The first, about 7 p.m., and nearest to Idyllwild was magnitude 2.1. It occurred about 4 miles south of Idyllwild and 10 miles east-southeast of Valle Vista, near Garner Valley. The tremor was barely felt on the Hill. Just after midnight, another quake of magnitude 2.3 occurred east-southeast of…
At the December meeting of the Pine Cove Water District, Director and Board President Mike Esnard was re-elected for 2015 while directors Lou Padula and Robert Hewitt switched offices. Hewitt will be the next vice president and Padula board secretary. Esnard, who joined the board in February 2007, was elected president in June 2013 and…
I have read with interest the articles and letters on the new fire abatement program. I was not really con-cerned until I realized that a code being considered will make me cut down any live trees within 35 feet of my house that are touching other trees. I went around my house 35 feet out and…
