A female hiker was rescued from Tahquitz Rock in Idyllwild after sustaining injury to an extremity, according to Riverside County Fire Department spokesperson Jody Hagemann. The injured female was extracted from the area by a helicopter hoist and was transported by ground ambulance to an area hospital in stable condition, according to Hagemann. RCFD, CAL…
Martha Snyder wrote in “Another Point of View” [see the Town Crier’s June 28 issue] that Idyllwild Pines Camp now prohibits pedestrians from walking through camp because children are being kidnapped, molested, abused and murdered. Really? How will preventing locals from walking through camp protect campers? The article reads like a bad sermon: inflammatory, over…
For more than a decade, it has been my joy, nearly every day, to walk the path along beautiful Strawberry Creek from Delano to town and back with my dog, who loved our outings as much as I did. When I saw the “Private Property” signs that went up at Idyllwild Pines Camp, I felt…
The Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit completed two rescues on the Fourth of July. Long accustomed to interruption of holiday celebrations, the RMRU team began one mission around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3rd. Two hikers from the San Francisco area had left the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway mountaintop station at 2:15 p.m. for a day…
If Ms. Snyder [Executive Director of Idyllwild Pines Camp] intended to alienate the community, give her an “A+.” She is not the “we” of the 89-year-old Idyllwild Pines Camp. The “we” welcomed neighbors. The “No Trespassing” signs appeared at the southeast end after a complaint was made against the camp for destruction of natural habitat….
I have no vested interest in the border closings at Idyllwild Pines Camp, but the new owner or manager of the camp seems unfriendly to me. I’ve never walked in the camp grounds but I know many local neighbors who have done that for decades, for generations, with no apparent ill effect. Students at Idyllwild…
I cannot comment on any staff changes at Idyllwild Library as it falls under personnel issues. I will say, however, that the kind of librarian described by the letter writer is the kind of librarian we expect at all of the libraries in the county. A person who relates well to the “personality” of the…
I want Teresa back. Idyllwild is a community as well as a location. We smile at strangers on the street, we chat with people whom we know only as someone with a P.O. box near ours, we watch our neighbor’s house when they go off the Hill. And we speak up when a valuable member…
I feel compelled to write for the opportunity to read about Diane Olsen in your June 28 issue. Rather than call it an obituary, I would describe Kristina Olsen’s piece as an appreciation of her mother’s life, and it simply radiated humor, insight and compassion. Although I was not privileged to know Diane, she was…
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Tuesday to Monday, June 26 to July 2, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance June 26 — Medical aid, John Muir Road, Idyllwild. June 27 — Walk-in medical aid. June 28 — Two walk-in medical aid. June 28 — Medical aid, Overlook and Big Pine…
