The Idyllwild Community Center has met a major milestone, one for which the community has waited several years. The official groundbreaking for work on the project will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 26, at the ICC site. And immediately following this ceremony, the dedication of Idypark will take place in the center of town. Nearly…
Town Hall up for sale Recreation activities continue to be popular, Bob Lewis, director of the Idyllwild Community Center recreation program, reported to the Advisory Committee for County Service Area 36 (Idyllwild and Fern Valley) last Thursday night. For example, the Youth Baseball program has 106 players, from kindergarten to middle school, on 10 teams…
“Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl is a theatrical adaptation from letters that passed between writers Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Touted as one of the greatest exposés between two American literary giants spanning a period of 30 years, the play is culled and scripted from more than 800 letters of intricate friendship and supportive critique,…
The Idyllwild Town Crier was a finalist in two categories of the 2017 California Journalism Awards, sponsored by the California News Publishers Association. J.P. Crumrine’s story “San Jacinto Fault very active” was a finalist in the Enterprise News Story or Series category. Staff members Halie Wilson, Lisa Streeter, Becky Clark and Mandy Johnson were finalists…
Idyllwild also has some homeless Last week, Riverside County’s Department of Public Social Services released the results of its 2018 winter homeless survey. In January 2018, the survey identified 2,310 homeless county residents, 96 fewer individuals, or about 4 percent less, than identified in January 2017. The count identifies both individuals seen on the street…
Air quality in Riverside County is abysmal, and nearly the same for the rest of Southern California, according to the latest “State of The Air” from the American Lung Association in California. Riverside County, along with most of its neighbors, earned an “F” for both ozone days and particle days. Orange County was the exception…
Longtime residents and owners of Idyllwild Garage since the early 1960s, John and Teresa Friemoth, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Thursday, April 19, 2018. Married in Ohio, the two moved to California to join John’s father in the auto-repair business, where he later ended up taking it over. They have three children, seven grandchildren,…
Jeffrey Hubbs Turner, 70, died Saturday, April 14, 2018, at home in Idyllwild of natural causes. He was born to Robert and Marion Skip Turner on Sept. 18, 1947, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam from 1965 to 1969, receiving the Navy/Marine Presidential Citation. Jeff graduated…
About 5:30 a.m. Friday, a 2.9-magnitude earthquake occurred about 4 miles south of Idyllwild. The original estimate was a 3.4-magnitude quake. The quake rumbled for several seconds before ending in a boom. No major damage has been reported. The tremor was felt from Murrieta and Temecula in the west and east to Indio based on…
Joy Sliver, the major Democratic candidate for the 28th State Senate seat, came to Idyllwild last week. Attending the Idyllwild Indivisibles’ April 19 meeting at Town Hall, Silver described her path to candidacy challenging incumbent Sen. Jeff Stone, and several of her positions and goals if elected. “I’ve evolved from an advocate to an activist…
