Brendan Steele posted an even-par 74-69-69-68 — 280 last week in the BMW Championship, which was good for only 63rd place on the relatively tame Aronimink Golf Club course at Newton Square, Pennsylvania, closing out his 2017-18 PGA Tour season. The native Idyllwilder finished the season 56th on the FedExCup points list and 77th on…
Idyllwild Town Crier Correspondent Dante Yardas gave this report on the recent Town Hall Adult Coed Softball championship game. Idyllwild’s Town Hall Coed Softball championship premiered Wednesday, Sept. 5, and ended Friday between Creekstone Inn and Patty Perez Cleaning. In the first game, Creekstone Inn beat Patty Perez with a score of 8-4, but Patty…
Wildfires are not unexpected events for Hill residents. Major fires, such as the recent Cranston Fire and the 2013 Mountain and Silver fires, are not annual disasters, but frequent enough to keep residents alert and prepared to react. The Cranston Fire burned more than 13,000 acres and the Mountain Fire burned more than twice that…
As Brian Chiu, from the Grid Resiliency and Public Safety Office of Southern California Edison, told an audience at Town Hall in May, SCE is taking steps to expand its use of weather forecasting and has been installing small weather stations locally to improve its awareness of the weather conditions and fire potential. This is…
Idyllwild Arts Academy is hosting a College Fair for high school students from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at Nelson Dining Hall on campus. All local high school students, not just IAA students, are invited to the free event. Representatives of these colleges are attending the fair: The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory, Arts…
The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians invites the community and public to the 22nd-annual Soboba Inter-Tribal Pow Wow set for Friday to Sunday, Sept. 14, to 16, at the Soboba Event Center next to Soboba Casino in San Jacinto. This will be a family friendly event with free admission and parking, and everyone is welcome….
Congressman Raul Ruiz, MD, posted the above video via Facebook Live today, explaining how a letter from the Idyllwild Town Crier prompted him to act to protect the viability of newspapers across the country, saddled with increased printing costs due to a new tariff.
Thursday morning, Aug. 30, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Marijuana Extraction Team removed a grove of marijuana from U.S. Forest Service lands north of Lake Fulmor. Starting early in the morning, the team, whose members are from the Sheriff’s Department, the U.S. Forest Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the California National…
Editor’s note: On Aug. 30, the Town Crier reported that Darryl Scholl had been stabbed multiple times on the night of Aug. 21. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had arrested and charged Jeremy Greene, 23, of Oceanside, for the attack two days later. Since that story appeared, several people have stepped forward with additional information…
On Sunday, Sept. 2, two weary hikers were airlifted off the mountain. About 11 a.m., the Mt. San Jacinto State Park Wilderness received a call from a fatigued hiker unable to continue hiking, according to the press release from Todd Friedman of the California Department of Parks and Recreation. The call was from a male…
