The mini-El Niño continued into its third week with the Hill receiving nearly 2 inches of rain since New Year’s weekend. More rain and possibly some snow is forecast for the rest of the week. However, it was Northern California that was awash from rain and snow from an “atmospheric river.” These massive storms historically…
Southern California’s bighorn sheep population is flourishing. The census of bighorn sheep was conducted in November. This was one of the largest counts in recent years, according to Kevin Brennan, wildlife biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The survey was conducted over several days. Helicopters flew over the bighorn sheep’s habitat from…
The California Highway Patrol, San Gorgonio Pass Station, reported two traffic crashes over the last week. At 3:25 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 29, Versie Carpenter, 60, of Hemet, was driving her 2006 blue Nissan Maxima eastbound on Highway 74, 3 ½ miles west of McCall Park Road, when she began to experience a diabetic emergency, according…
Mike Feyder, Mountain Disaster Preparedness president, discussed his organization at the Thursday, Dec. 8, Mountain Emergency Services Committee meeting. Established in 1986, MDP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting emergency preparedness awareness to community members in Idyllwild, Pine Cove and Mountain Center. Members provide supplies and maintain eight Disaster Aid Stations throughout greater Idyllwild….
Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild. And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written…
Nearly four years after the U.S. Forest Service began its review of the May Valley trail complex, San Jacinto District Ranger Arturo Delgado made a final decision on the configuration of its official trail system in May Valley. A proposed action had been announced in October. Delgado reviewed the environmental assessment, public comments and the…
The Idyllwild Warming Center, located at the American Legion Post 800 at 54360 Marian View Drive, has an activation protocol different from those used by the Community Action Partnership with all its off-Hill warming center partners. CAP off-Hill activation protocol calls for opening warming centers are 40 degrees or below. On Friday, Dec. 9, 2016,…
No weather forecaster predicted an El Niño or even a rainy winter, yet so far, the 2016-17 season has been surprisingly, and gratifyingly, wet. For the second-consecutive holiday weekend, rain and snow fell on the Hill. While the amounts were not as massive as the Christmas weekend, New Year’s weekend supplied more than an inch…
As 2017 began, a series of earthquakes, hundreds, occurred in the area south of the Salton Sea. The Brawley and Imperial area shook and quivered from New Year’s Eve through Monday. Most of the quakes were Saturday. Their magnitude ranged from a high of 3.9 to less than 2.0. No major damage or injuries were…
Kathy Sacher Wilson posted a resignation from County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee on Facebook. Posted on Monday, Jan. 2, the resignation is lengthy and can be read at www.facebook.com/idyllwild.speak?fref=ts. Wilson stated she had notified Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington of her resignation one week ago but had not yet received a reply…
