The Idyllwild Water District’s Consolidation Committee held another meeting Tuesday evening, Aug. 28. Committee Chair Peter Szabadi told the attendees that he planned to encourage his fellow directors to engage the community in future efforts about greater water-district cooperation. In his opinion, this process needs to originate within the community rather than from a district….
Updated: Aug. 31, 2018. Updates are in italics. According to the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Idyllwild-Pine Cove’s low-income residents travel an hour to the nearest doctor for primary healthcare. “There are no providers in that area accepting Medicaid or that have a Sliding Fee Scale, according to our survey from 2016,”…
Thursday morning, Aug. 30, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Marijuana Extraction Team removed a grove of marijuana from U.S. Forest Service lands north of Lake Fulmor. Starting early in the morning, the team, whose members are from the Sheriff’s Department, the U.S. Forest Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the California National…
Kelly Gates remains postmaster San Diego native and Lake Elsinore resident Craig Simmons is the officer in charge at the Idyllwild Post Office. He has held that position since February of this year. Kelly Gates remains postmaster for Idyllwild but is on temporary detail in charge of implementing best business practices at U.S. Post Offices…
By Becky and Jack Clark Co-publishers Of course, anyone may become a Town Crier Member at any time in the future, and we hope you do, if you haven’t already. But those who become Members in our very first Membership year — i.e., up until and including Aug. 31, 2018, that’s Friday of this week…
The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to small businesses economically impacted by the Cranston Fire that occurred July 25 to Aug. 15, SBA Administrator Linda McMahon announced today. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster following a request received from Gov. Edmund G. Brown…
At its Aug. 28 meeting, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved the request from the Idyllwild Fire Protection District for an advance of its property tax revenue. IFPD requested an advance of $400,000 from the county in May. The advance will be repaid, with interest, in December and January when Riverside County makes its…
According to California Highway Patrol Public Information Darren Meyer, there was one solo non-injury crash last week. AT 4:10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, Sean Alexander, 33, of Hemet, was driving his 1991 Chevy pick-up truck westbound on Highway 74 west of McCall Park Road in Mountain Center, when he made an unsafe turning movement. The…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Aug. 19 to 25. Idyllwild • Aug. 19 — Alarm call, 5:26 a.m., Glen Rd. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 19 — Noise complaint, 5:30 p.m., North Circle Dr. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 20 — Alarm call,…
“Ready, Set, Go!” is the creed that fire agencies — federal, state and local — urge Hill residents to apply. And Monday evening, the same agencies and more said the same preparation and urgency is necessary when the heavy rains threaten flooding and debris flow. The severity of the Cranston Fire has changed the soils…
