Idyllwild local Andrew “Andy” Smith has been working for the U.S. Forest Service for 20 years and was honored this last November with the agency’s Agency Partner Employee Award. This award is given to an agency employee who has been very helpful to the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA) and an advocate for the Pacific…
The notice advertised at the head of the program for the Monday night Jan. 20 concert at Idyllwild Arts Academy read “A celebration of equality in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Taken at a glance, the celebratory nature of the event, as scheduled on the day set aside for the civil rights champion’s…
Esteemed rock-climbing veteran Howard “Kojak” Judson passed peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Howard is survived by his wife Mary Zo, daughter Kristin, son Erik, and sisters Jane and Pauline. Howard was born Jan. 27, 1942 in Long Beach, California. He attended Lakewood High School and completed both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in political…
Idyllwild’s Steven Leigh Morris, former LA Weekly critic and founding editor of Stage Raw, wrote a play, “Red Ink,” on stage now at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles. In a press release, Morris writes “Red Ink looks at the corrosive pressures of click-bait journalism and cut-throat competition on an imploding newspaper recently purchased…
By Riverside County Office of EducationContributed Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Judy D. White was sworn in as a commissioner for First 5 Riverside, the Riverside County Children and Families Commission, during a commission meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 22. “Joining First 5 Riverside is an up-front investment into fulfilling the Riverside County Office of…
By The California Public Utilities CommissionContributed The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing efforts to strengthen community wildfire resiliency throughout the state, established new budgets Jan. 16 and modified incentives of more than $1 billion to fund the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) for the next critical fire season and subsequent years. The Jan….
By Trudy LiebermanCommunity Health News Service We know too well the cost of American health care keeps rising as far as the eye can see. In 1995 health care accounted for 13.4% of GDP and in 2018 it consumed 17.7%. It is projected to rise even more. Despite all the talk about how they should…
Businesses in and around our Hill — and that includes Hemet, Beaumont-Banning and the Coachella Valley desert communities — are invited to join with Town Crier members and readers in helping keep a real newspaper serving our community. That’s important for you, too, because there’s no better way to reach members of our community with…
By Covered CaliforniaContributed Yuriana and Hector live for the smiles on their daughters’ faces, but just five years ago, they were uncertain about what size family they would have in this expensive health care climate. The passage of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Covered California opening for business changed that equation…
Carolyn Sherwood will be giving a talk at Idyllwild Library from 4 to 6 p.m. Feb. 6 about her trip to southeast Asia last summer. Her focus will be on a multiethnic humanitarian service movement called the Free Burma Rangers (FBR). The movement originated in Burma but now has a presence in Kurdistan, Iraq and…
