Becky Clark Editor Photo courtesy Riverside County Sheriff’s Department A grandmother visiting family in Garner Valley pleaded guilty and was convicted July 8 of willfully harming/injuring/endangering her 2-year-old granddaughter’s personal health after the grandmother left a cup of methamphetamine-laced tea unattended on a counter and the child drank some of the contents on the night…
Idyllwild resident Bobbi Crawford needed a kidney …
Two previous explanations offered by Cal Fire public information officers as to why the Cal Fire investigation reports of last year’s Mountain Fire (“potential future litigation under Government Code section 6254, subdivision (b)” and “one more step left in the investigation”) did not answer the Town Crier’s questions regarding the extent of the agency’s redactions…
Melody Henderson, Cal Fire public information officer, said, “An outbuilding was involved with possible extension into an abandoned building, but they just stopped the forward progress on half an acre of vegetation.” Riverside County/Cal Fire firefighters battled the Willow Fire off of Highway 74 and Willowbrook Road near the U.S. Forest Service Cranston Station. The Forest Service…
The California Teachers Association applauded the governor’s signing of Assembly Bill 215 last week, a bill that updates and streamlines California’s teacher discipline and dismissal process. “For California’s educators, keeping children safe in our classrooms is always a top priority. We have long supported streamlining the dismissal process so we are pleased to see this…
If you read the front-page story about the Mountain Fire two weeks ago, you must have seen where you can access Cal Fire’s Investigation Report online — all 251 pages. In early February, Cal Fire Information Officer Daniel Berlant said the investigation was progressing but not complete. Then six weeks ago, Cal Fire said the…
The June 27 arraignment of one of two defendants accused of a 2006 triple homicide in Pinyon has been moved to July 18 in the Riverside County Superior Court in Indio. Robert Lars Pape, 25, was arrested March 11, 2014, for the Sept. 17, 2006 murders of Becky Friedl, 18, her mother, Vicki Friedli, 53,…
The Idyllwild Historic Preservation District Review Board met briefly last week and apart from the approving the minutes, the board acknowledged that its review of the plans for the new Cedar Street restaurant, Ferro, is complete, and the project is now in the hands of the county. Board members present included Chair Warren Monroe and…
Editor: The recent article by J.P. Crumrine in the Town Crier accurately captures the primary ideas of my recent talk on Idyllwild’s fire crisis. Citizens of Idyllwild must realize that nature, combined with fire suppression, are driving the community to fire disaster. Plants reproduce, grow and accumulate energy; plants uptake water until soils desiccate by…
