Assembly Bill (AB) 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act or FAST Recovery Act, enacted in September 2022, is on hold until the November 2024 election. AB 257 creates a 10-person council to set rules for chains with 100 or more restaurants nationally. It can set the minimum wage for fast-food workers with…
Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…
Should we be worrying? Dear Editor: It’s Thursday, Jan. 26, and the weatherman says we may have 75 mph wind gusts in their wind warning. SCE (Edison) has been doing its fire prevention tree trimming for years now and I’ve always appreciated it; never gave it much thought. But looking up yesterday at the giant…
The Local Review Board (LRB) of the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District (IHPD) met Thursday, Jan. 26, at Idyllwild Library. Present were President Terry Shirley and new board members Stephanie Yost and David Cutter. Members Warren Monroe and Ron Kamermeyer were absent and Kammermeyer has stepped down, leaving an opening. Representing the county was Bridget Lawlor,…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Board of Commissioners agenda items for its Jan. 24 board meeting included an educational session at noon, followed by the swearing in of three board members, followed by a closed session, followed by the regular session meeting of the board. During the educational session, IFPD counsel Steven Graham conducted…
FVWD — Friday, Jan. 20 Fern Valley Water District (FVWD) directors met for the first time in several years at the office with one director, Robert Krieger, allowed to teleconference because of a prior request and one director, Kevin Scott, teleconferencing who had not made a request. Scott could discuss but was not allowed to…
1955-2022 Tom was born May 7, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. He married his high school sweetheart, Dawn, 48 years ago and together they brought their growing family to California in 1977. Tom worked as a firefighter in Apple Valley for 15 years, first as a fireman, then retiring as a captain. He and Dawn moved…
1958-2022 Our dear Julia Countryman has passed from this experience Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. She was born May 5, 1958. She was an amazing woman and a joy to have been our colleague and friend at Spirit Mountain Retreat. We are honored to preside over this Celebration of Life with her beautiful daughters Amy, Emily…
1946-2023 Carolyn Lowman passed away in Coronado Friday, Jan. 6. Carolyn was born in 1946 and raised in Rhinelander, a northern Wisconsin city in the midst of lakes, rivers and paper mills. Surrounded by loving cousins whose fathers all worked at the paper mill, she enjoyed an idyllic, outdoor childhood in the great American Midwest. …
1946-2022 Charlotte Lucas, 76, of Menifee, passed away surrounded by her family Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 after a three year battle with cardiovascular disease. Charlotte was born Nov. 2, 1946 to Charles and Della Priessler in New York City. At a young age, she moved with her parents to Des Moine, Iowa, where she graduated…
