Last night, Tuesday, Oct. 3, at about 9:15 p.m., a fire was report on or near Black Mountain. This afternoon, Wednesday, Oct. 4, Gerrelaine Alcordo, deputy public affairs officer at the San Bernardino National Forest reported the Azalea Fire is holding at 12 acres and is already 80 percent contained. Firefighters have spread retardant around…
In furtherance of the initial response to our Memberships drive, readers of the Town Crier on and off the Hill are converting their old subscriptions into new Memberships. This can be done at any time; no need to wait until your old subscription runs out. Becky is adept at tacking on remaining old-subscription weeks onto…
Water supplies are critical Shane Reichardt of the Riverside County Emergency Management Department was the guest speaker at the Sept. 28 Mountain Emergency Service Committee meeting. September was National Preparedness Month. While it was nearly over when he spoke, Reichardt addressed the issue in the context of the recent emergencies created by hurricanes and earthquakes,…
Declines to approve spending requests Four of six action items on the Idyllwild Water District’s agenda involved approval of recommendations from the general manager to purchase or proceed with actions that would requires expenditures. This month, the board decided to limit its expenses and only approved one recommendation — a contract to clean and video…
Idyllwild School again led the Hemet Unified School District’s performance on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. The state exam was given last spring. The State Department of Education released individual school results last week. The tests are English language arts and mathematics. The percentage of Idyllwild School students in all grades who…
As the first quarter of fiscal year 2017-18 ends, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s financial consultant worked with its auditing team to prepare the audit from fiscal year 2016-17, which ended June 30. Consequently, he was unable to prepare any financial reports for the commission’s review at its monthly meeting last week. However, one long-term…
Long-term weather forecasting gets complicated The future may be uncertain, but the past was clearly visible at Thursday evening’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness meeting. Alex Tardy, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s San Diego office, described several recent weather events, such as the drought, the summer and winter temperatures, and rainfall, with superlatives —…
Michael Darranger Kellner, 24, of Idyllwild, was arrested at 6:51 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, on Country Club Drive, on suspicion of a stealing a tip jar from Christian Chalifour, a harpist, performing outside in Strawberry Creek Square on Friday, Sept. 15. Chalifour said in a Facebook post that the tip contained only “$40 or so.”…
At 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Vitaliy Sukhorukov, 41, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was driving his black 2017 Nissan Sentra westbound on Highway 74, 5 miles west of McGaugh Road, when for unknown reasons he made an unsafe turning movement and ran onto uneven dirt terrain. His vehicle collided with the hill causing damage to the…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Sept. 17 to 23. Idyllwild • Sept. 18 — Public assist, 12:19 p.m., 53000 block of Tollgate Rd. Handled by deputy. • Sept. 19 — Alarm call, 0:08 a.m., Tahquitz View Dr. Handled by deputy. • Sept. 19…
