Editor: In a couple of weeks, I will have lived here for 44 years. So, I was here when we had a park, “Eleanor Park.” in the center of our small town. And I was here when Jimmy Johnson opened what he dubbed The Tax Shelter, a hot dog stand, something that could be used…
Ten businesses are Town Crier Members: Baily Winery; The Family Business (tax preparation); Everitt’s Minerals & Gallery; Fern Valley Inn; Idyllwild Backhoe; Idyllwild Vacation Rentals; Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery; The Red Kettle (restaurant); Sandlin & Son Refrigeration; and Sub Rosa Apothecary. Also, three nonprofit organizations and two public agencies have joined as Members: Idyllwild…
There is little doubt about the devastation caused by the Santa Rosa fires in Northern California last month (see “Former FSC president loses home in Santa Rosa fires” in the Nov. 9 issue of the Town Crier). The Tubbs Fire, one of several in Napa and Sonoma counties, burned through Santa Rosa with estimated damage…
Financial issues — past and future — dominated the discussion during last week’s Pine Cove Water District board meeting. General Manager Jerry Holldber reported on the costs of the recently completed South Central Pipeline Project, which is in the Nestwa Trail neighborhood. Work took 40 days from late August until early November. District staff replaced…
About 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, a structure fire was reported in the 52900 block of Fern Land Drive in Pine Cove. Cal Fire reported that a 2 1/2-story home and about a half-acre of vegetation were involved. Cal Fire (Station 23), along with firefighters from the San Bernardino National Forest’s San Jacinto Ranger District…
David Mattson Potter of Mountain Center passed away at home Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. He was born in Pasadena Jan. 6, 1943. He graduated from Berkeley in 1965 with a degree in civil engineering and worked for Los Angeles County for 37 years. Dave and his wife Pam lived in Seal Beach for 30 years…
Mutual aid revenues increasing Through the end of its first quarter of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District has a negative balance. However, that is usual for IFPD and many special districts that do not begin receiving property-tax revenue until December. The district’s finance committee reviewed the first-quarter data…
Only closed session topics,to be repeated this week The Idyllwild Water District directors held a special meeting Wednesday evening, Nov. 8. The two agenda items were both to be discussed in closed session. First, the directors were to evaluate Interim General Manager Jack Hoagland’s performance. Then they were going to consider a person for the…
Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. The Salmon August Complex burned from July into October. The final U.S. Forest Service post about the complex fire was Oct. 6. From the middle of August until early September, Battalion Chief Mark LaMont of the Idyllwid Fire Department was a division group supervisor on the…
