Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney in August and the beginning of its year-end playoffs. Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association held the regular monthly tourney in conjunction with the first round of playoffs for club champion on Friday, Aug. 18, at…
County union plans strike The Labor Day weekend passed with the usually community events and political speeches throughout the nation and in California. However, labor issues are coming to the forefront locally. Both Riverside County and Hemet Unified School District will be addressing them this fall. Tuesday evening, Sept. 5, HUSD held a public hearing…
Pine Cove voters continue to express their satisfaction with incumbents on the water district’s board. All three — Board President Robert Hewitt, Lou Padula and Joel Palmer — were easily re-elected to another four-year term. Challenger Jeffery Kleefisch finished with 60 votes (or 12.1 percent of the ballots cast), well behind the three incumbents who…
The Town Crier has new distribution locations on the Hill. As we’ve advised previously, beginning with this week’s Sept. 7 issue, the Town Crier will no longer be “free on the Hill.” The price is $1 per copy at eight locations: Idyllwild Chevron, Idyllwild Shell, Fairway Market, Lake Hemet Market, Mountain Center Market, Pine Cove…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Aug. 27 to Sept. 2. Idyllwild • Aug. 27 — 911 call from business, 1:54 a.m., 26000 block of Hwy. 243. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 27 — Alarm call, 3:27 p.m., Pine Crest Ave. Handled by deputy….
To visit the site of the 9/11 attacks today, the National September 11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center, is to see a country’s spirit reborn and renewed with haunting tributes, graceful and soaring architecture, somber and beautiful museums, and the sound of water pouring from fountains outlining the bases of the two towers…
Editor: Idyllwild Fire and Idyllwild Water are sub-standard agencies that refuse to fix their problems not because they fail to identify them, but rather they don’t see the importance of doing so. The arrogance is appalling, dangerous and reason enough for dissolution. IFPD won’t be the lead agency saving your home during a wildfire nor…
Editor: My wife and I bought our cabin in Pine Cove in 2012. The cabin was a bank repo and required a lot of work. I wanted to use local “Hill” businesses but sources of information were hard to come by and not always reliable. The Town Crier was the exception and became my primary…
Editor: After many years of vacationing on the Hill, I have always wondered what reference point is used for determining the elevation of our Hill communities: Pine Cove, 6,200 feet; Idyllwild, 5,303 feet; Mountain Center, 4,444 feet. Michael Blurton Pine Cove
By Jack and Becky Clark Co-publishers When we decided we needed to appeal to Town Crier readers, we had no idea what their response would be. We simply knew that relying on local business advertising would no longer work for our Hill, so Town Crier readers — the folk who seem to appreciate it most…
