Editor: Why has the Town Crier been backing a disgruntled employee, a person who wants a water meter for her property and a realtor who wants to sell to everybody? It’s not the job of a paper to run the agenda of the town. I have been on the board of the Chamber of Commerce,…
Jack and I flew to Oakland last Thursday morning to pick up the BART to ride into San Francisco. The California Press Foundation’s 139th Winter Meeting takes place annually the first week of December at the Marines’ Memorial Club. Thursday night, we attended an awards ceremony there and listened to speaker David Talbot, author of…
In January 2016, the Idyllwild Warming Center was moved by the Community Action Partnership from the American Legion Post 800 where it had been for six years to Town Hall. Town Hall is not open at night, as the American Legion was when it hosted the warming center. Also, Town Hall hosts a variety of…
Five years of drought has made most of us conscious of our water use, and more aware of rain and snow. Limitations on lawn watering and car washing may have even created some inconveniences. But the state’s forests have suffered a significant toll during this period. Last month, the U.S. Forest Service reported that since…
With the arrival of winter and several rainstorms in the past two weeks, the Riverside County Fire Department lifted its burn suspension. The suspension was effective at 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 5. According to its press release, “ …. CAL FIRE Riverside Unit Chief John R. Hawkins is formally cancelling the burn permit suspension and…
Two crashes, both on Sunday, Dec. 4, took place on Hill roads over the last week. At 11:27 a.m., Christopher Wrenn, 24, of Aguanga, was riding his black 2014 Honda street bike east on Highway 371, a half mile west of the intersection with Highway 74 when, while negotiating a left-hand curve, he crossed over…
The future of a joint power authority for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District to provide fire and emergency medical services to the City of San Jacinto appears to be changing. In the litigation filed this summer to establish validation of the JPA, San Jacinto City was a plaintiff. At the city council meeting Tuesday night,…
The Riverside County Planning Commission approved the conditional use permit for the Idyllwild Community Center site. The commission vote was unanimous, although it did add one additional condition to the CUP. After several months of delay and unexpected postponements, the San Jacinto Mountain Community Center board, led by President Janice Lyle, has obtained the approval…
Holiday entertainment will be plentiful in Idyllwild. And while Burl Ives won’t be traveling to Idyllwild to sing his favorite Christmas ballad this year, the Idyllwild Actors Theatre will present “A Holly Jolly Christmas” as its 2016 Christmas production. The company will perform a variety of tales to warm the hearts and make even the…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale presents “Viva Vivaldi,” IMC’s always popular holiday fusion concert — serving up Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and other chorale confections and then, after intermission, a jubilant jazz holiday sampler. And with choral music where dynamics matter, where pianissimo often goes unheard in many halls, Idyllwild’s new concert gem Lowman Concert Hall provides…
