The U.S. Forest Service announced that it is proposing some changes to the Land Management Plan for the San Bernardino National Forest. The proposal will change existing monitoring programs, to be consistent with new planning criteria. Fire activity, non-native annual grasses, fire-frequency departure, special uses and stream flows are the activities that would be modified,…
This week, Cal Fire, in cooperation with California State Parks, will be conducting prescribed burns of brush and slash piles in the Mt. San Jacinto State Park from Tuesday, March 29, through Thursday, March 31. On Tuesday, the burn took place in the area of Thousand Trails Park in Pine Cove. On Wednesday and Thursday,…
Editor’s Note: The Town Crier began this service of reporting propane prices to our readers after many questions regarding how propane companies set their pricing structures and what factors are involved in doing so. We appreciate the cooperation of companies who answer our queries and provide information to our readers. Scott Brockelmeyer, Ferrellgas vice president…
Editor: I moved from Louisville, Colorado, back to Idyllwild in 2011. Throughout the last third of my childhood, I lived in this forest. In 2009, a friend told me that Clesson Harvey, a man accountable for a lengthy translation of many Egyptian hieroglyphs, claimed a visitation, like in the days of the pyramids, would happen…
Editor: If any of your readers believe that war is something that happens to other people, they are living in fantasy land. I was a 10-year-old boy living in a Chicago suburb when World War II began with Pearl Harbor. In the next four years, I lost a close, older friend whose B-17 bomber was…
Last week, two Idyllwild School employees were honored by the Hemet Unified School District. Health Technician Melissa Churchill received Idyllwild School’s classified employee of the year award. Bob Leih received both the school and the district’s teacher of the year awards. Even though we had given both of these employees coverage in the TC for…
Two traffic collisions, both serious, occurred on the same day on the same highway and only minutes apart. At 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, Robert Stanislowski, 33, of Hemet, was driving his 1996 Toyota Corolla north on Highway 243 one and a quarter mile north of the intersection with Highway 74. At the same time,…
The strongest El Niño weather pattern since the late 1990s never truly brought its predicted rain torrents to Southern California. During the winter months, when the region was expected to be dealing with flood emergencies and mudslides, an unusual high-pressure system pushed the storms further north. According to Alex Tardy of the National Weather Service’s…
Editor’s note: Each year, the Town Crier reports the information below for Fern Valley Water District, Idyllwild Fire Protection District, Idyllwild WD and Pine Cove WD. FVWD was in the March 17 issue and IFPD was in the March 24 issue. PCWD information will appear next week. Each district provides the information to the state…
