Multiple outlets have done stories on the people who have gone missing in and around the Idyllwild area including News 8 out of San Diego, the Press Enterprise and Desert Sun. News 8’s Investigative Producer David Gotfredson has been following the story on Lydia “Dia” Abrams closely because of her ties to the San Diego…
Your new or renewed Town Crier Membership comes with nice extras. A huge one is supplied through the generosity of Bruce Ross and Eileen Gallo-Ross, owners of The Red Kettle restaurant in downtown Idyllwild: Discounts on up to two meals per day for six months!(Other businesses, please note: We’re open to your generosity in providing…
The newspaper recently inquired with the county about the Delta Variant.“As of today [July 8], we have 10 delta variant cases,” wrote Jose Arballo Jr, public information specialist for the county of Riverside, in an email. “As far as we know, none of the 10 were vaccinated.“As for the specific testing, I do not know,”…
By U.S. Forest ServiceContributed A team of scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced a group of 253 endangered Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs to a remote site on the San Bernardino National Forest…
By Diana KurrPresident of SoroptimistInternational of Idyllwild Soroptimist International of Idyllwild announces the Modified Annual Basket Festival and Spaghetti Dinner to be held Wednesday, Sept. 22. The event will be held at FERRO Restaurant.This year, the seating will be limited. You can receive an entry to the Dinner Invitation Raffle by purchasing Basket Festival tickets…
Due to scheduling and a short-staffed California Highway Patrol (CHP) – San Gorgonio Pass office, the newspaper has not been able to consistently report the traffic collisions. CHP Public Information Officer Matt Napier has spent time catching the newspaper up on the traffic collisions that have occurred since May 20. This report will include collisions…
Firefighters from the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD), Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department Stations 23 and 72 and the U.S. Forest Service – San Bernardino National Forest responded to a house fire on West Ridge Road Sunday afternoon. Initially, the call came in at 2:07 p.m. as a structure fire on Saunders Meadow Road at…
“You have to bring your own water up there,” said Charles Phelan. “It is a valuable service that towers are still staffed. I know we have caught stuff that could have gotten out of control had we not spotted it.” Phelan has been a volunteer at the Tahquitz Peak Fire Lookout for six years. He…
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Public Information Officer Matt Napier was able to release information regarding a fatality that occurred Sunday, May 9. The CHP’s Multiagency Accident Investigation Team was called out to investigate this collision. The below is information received by the Town Crier from the CHP. At 2:30 p.m., Nathan Daniel McConnell, 39, of…
A “Thank You!” shoutout to all Town Crier Members and Readers who responded in our recent drive to raise money for the Idyllwild HELP Center (IHC).Many of you donated your federal relief money — not really needed for your own COVID-19 relief — to the IHC, which used it for folk who really did need…
