The Gastrognome restaurant closed Friday, Jan. 14, and reopened Thursday, Jan. 20, due to a kitchen employee who tested positive for COVID.Johns Hopkins University (JHU), which has been tracking COVID daily since the beginning, reports that the U.S. is now experiencing more than 1,007,511 new, confirmed COVID cases daily — about 300,000 per day more…
Your new or renewed Town Crier Membership comes with a big extra: Thanks to the generosity of Bruce Ross and Eileen Gallo-Ross, each Town Crier new or renewed Membership receives discounts at their Red Kettle restaurant in downtown Idyllwild on up to two meals per day for six months.So, become a Member, if you’re not…
Idyllwild Water District (IWD) customers who were not able to pay their water and/or sewer bills due to COVID may apply for grant funds IWD received from the state.IWD General Manager Leo Havener told the board that IWD received $30,500, about $2,000 less than what is in arrears.He plans to offer grants on a first-come/first-served…
Eric Alexander Lang, 46, of Garden Grove, arrested in Idyllwild on residential burglary and other charges, has a preliminary hearing planned for Thursday, Feb. 3, in Riverside County Superior Court.A preliminary hearing is a pre-trial event before a judge to examine the evidence and determine whether a crime has been committed and whether enough sufficient…
The Idyllwild Water District (IWD) Board of Directors spent some time discussing an item not on its Wednesday, Jan. 19, agenda — the new commercial buildings in Idyllwild. Vice President Peter Szabadi brought up the issue toward the end of the meeting when he mentioned the Town Crier reporting several stories on Hotel Idyllwild Brad…
At the Jan. 18, Riverside County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Kim Saruwatari, director of the county Public Health Department, and Bruce Barton, director of the county Emergency Management Department, presented the board with a status report on how the recent COVID surge, driven by the Omicron variant, is affecting the county and its health care…
Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Chief Mark LaMont attended the Fern Valley Water District (FVWD) Board of Directors meeting last Friday morning for several reasons. He thanked the district for replacing about 47 fire hydrants saying that helps raise the community’s Insurance Service Office’s (ISO) fire rating, giving property owners better insurance rates, insurance rebates…
Forest Road No. 5S07, known as Bee Canyon Road, an off-highway vehicle road, closed Saturday, Jan. 15, for a volunteer cleanup event. Large amounts of trash and litter, largely leftover from target shooting activities, were addressed. Areas in Bautista Canyon where illegal dumping has occurred also were worked on, but the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)…
The Pine Cove Water District board’s Wednesday, Jan. 12 meeting was quick, even with a closed session at the end.Very little was on the agenda of Interim General Manager (GM) Jeremy Potter’s first meeting following GM Jerry Holldber’s retirement at the end of December.Potter reported that water usage was down almost 200,000 gallons in December…
