Editor: Editor’s note: This letter was sent to the Idyllwild Water District board: I am sending this email to let you know effective today, Sept. 16, 2016, I am retiring from the water district board. I have had a health issue since the beginning of the year, which has gone on until maybe now, but…
Editor: The large ad in the newspaper against Measure W was paid by private citizens. I really question if those citizens live in the Idyllwild Fire Protection District, especially the ad requesting dissolving Idyllwild Fire. Their “fact” that all the insurance companies were contacted about ISO 2 rating and no discount offered is incorrect. Glad…
More than a decade ago, I received a visit from a retired federal government official in my office on Village Center Drive. I had been forewarned about this visit from a friend. When the official arrived, my ear was to the phone in a conversation. I was on deadline. The person at the front desk…
After about 18 months, the Riverside County Department of Public Health has released its Community Health Improvement Plan. The work began among professionals and interest groups within the county in 2009. Last year, in 2015, communities and citizens began to be polled about their needs and priorities through a series of community meetings, including one…
One injury crash on Hill roads took place over the last week. At 6:20 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, Dixie Harlow, 84, of Idyllwild, was driving her 2013 silver Saturn Vue southbound on Highway 243 when she made a left turn onto Saunders Meadow Road. At the same time, Robert Rogers, 83, and also from Idyllwild,…
Idyllwild Arts Academy theater major Nicolas “Nico” Yasko is a young man with a work ethic and a mission. While only a junior, he has the mind and discipline, not to mention an abundance of talent, to accomplish whatever he begins. Nico is the next presenter at the Idyllwild Community Center speaker series, co-presented with…
Modern dance legend Bella Lewitzky, 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient, built a career that eschewed then-prevailing standards. She crafted a dance career based in Southern California rather than in New York, the dance citadel of the period. She cofounded Dance Theatre in Los Angeles in 1946 as an interracial school and company that artistically…
In a stunning upset, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, defeated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to become the next President. Nationwide the Republicans held their majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives. With slightly more than 480,000 ballots counted and about 260,000 ballots to be counted, Riverside County voters supported Clinton, 48.7 percent…
The Town Crier now has obtained the actual number of taxable parcels within each of Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s 21 tax rate areas, so we now can calculate the average percentage for each taxable parcel within the district. For parcels within IFPD, an average of 15.56 percent of the property tax goes to fire protection,…
Howard Wesley Brown, Idyllwild resident for more than 21 years, was born July 1, 1945 in Riverside, and passed away at Hemet Valley Medical Center on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Marine veteran and former owner of the Chevron Station, Howard was president of the Idyllwild Water District and vice president of the Idyllwild Fire…
