Last week, the Town Crier reported on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors asking the county executive and its legal staff to develop recommendations to cope with the dramatic dismissal of criminal cases before they could come to trial. The Riverside County Superior Court issued some comments about the situation last week. District Attorney Michael…
A Joshua Tree man was sentenced to two years in prison for a fatality that occurred in 2021 on Highway 243. On Jan. 31, Nathan Daniel McConnell, 40, pleaded guilty to gross vehicle manslaughter and reckless driving causing serious injury on May 9, 2021. McConnell was driving northbound on Highway 243, north of Miller Ranch…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy Visual Arts Department held an opening for the first of the winter semester’s three senior shows last Friday. The theme, “Solitude,” drew varied and surprising responses from the artists. Works expressed the positive and negative aspects of solitude; peace and freedom to dream, but also mortality, vulnerability and disability. Eight seniors…
Jim CrandallPalms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association played its regular monthly tournament at Menifee Lakes Country Club on the Palms Course Friday, Jan. 20. It was a nice, sunny winter’s day and the course was in pretty good shape. In the A-flight tourney, Gary Brown (course handicap 12)…
Brendan Steele will tee it up this week in the $20-million Waste Management Phoenix Open on the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course in Scottsdale, Arizona. Through Thunderbirds Charities, this tournament raised more than $10.5 million for local charities last year alone. The native Idyllwilder has enjoyed considerable success in this event, having played it in each…
The nonprofit Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) has donated two automated external defibrillator (AED) units to the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) for placement at Idyllwild Town Hall and Butterfield Amphitheater. Before moving off the Hill, volunteer MDP board member and Co-Chair Medical Director Dr. Dick Goldberg contacted ICC in May 2022 about emergency preparedness needs ICC…
Brendan Steele notched a top-20 in Farmers Insurance Open PGA golf tournament played on two courses in La Jolla last week. The Idyllwild native posted 65 and 70 in his first two rounds, but he had to settle for closing rounds of 76 and 75 to score a two-under-par 286. His drives averaged 300 yards,…
Pine Cove Property Owners The Pine Cove Property Owners Association will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Pine Cove Water District meeting room. The speaker will be Bill Tell speaking on the Emergency Siren System planned for the Hill.
It is too soon to know whether the drought has been eradicated or simply diminished. But the rain that fell across the state this month has resulted in the state being able to substantially increase State Water Project allocations. While this will have little effect on the Hill, it is an indication that water supplies…
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that, in persons who had previously received two to four monovalent vaccine doses, early results show that the new bivalent nRNA booster dose provides additional protection against symptomatic XBB/XBB.1.5 infection for at least the first three months after vaccination. The CDC continues to rate Riverside County among the…
