The Forest Folk, a local nonprofit, are planning to turn a 12-passenger shuttle bus, donated in the past to the now-defunct Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce, into transportation for Hill residents. Forest Folk is now seeking drivers. Through funds obtained from a grant written by Forest Folk key organizer Reba Coulter, assisted by Sue Harper, the…
By Kathy Keane Local Wildlife Biologist and Ornithologist Special to the Town Crier As you learned in my article in last week’s Town Crier, Idyllwild residents share our natural areas with a form of the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake. It carries a type of venom that can incapacitate a human until antivenom is administered or kill…
Fire log Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, Aug. 3 to 9. Anza • Aug. 6 — Dispatched & canceled en route, Hwy. 371. Idyllwild • Aug. 3 — Medical aid, Rim Rock Rd. • Aug. 4 — Medical aid, Fern Valley Rd. • Aug. 4 — Walk-in medical aid….
Tuesday evening, Aug. 4, about 25 Pine Cove residents came out to listen to the candidates for the Pine Cove Water District board answer questions from the public. Besides an opening and closing statement, the three candidates — Diana Eskew, Sharon Kaffen and Tim Lange — responded to dozens of questions. The attendees wrote down…
By J.P. Crumrine News Editor and Jack Clark Co-publisher/Correspondent Wednesday evening, Aug. 5, about 30 people, not all Idyllwild residents, came out to listen to the candidates for the Idyllwild Water District board answer questions from the public. Besides an opening and closing statement, the five candidates — Jim Billman, Dean Lattin, Steven Kunkle, Warren…
Marcie Curcie is beginning her second year of teaching, her first at Idyllwild Middle School, as math/electives teacher. But because her husband was active duty in the Marines, she worked in accounting and began to raise her three boys before turning to teaching. The Menifee resident received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and minor in…
Erica Dillon, wife of fourth-grade teacher Tom Dillon, joins the Idyllwild Elementary School faculty as kindergarten and transitional kindergarten teacher. Dillon taught kindergarten at Ramona Elementary School in Hemet, also part of the Hemet Unified School District, for 11 years. Both Erica and Tom recently moved to Idyllwild from Hemet, given their unified teaching assignments…
THURSDAY 8:59 a.m. UPDATE: Updated mapping shows the Anza Fire at 450 acres and now 80 percent contained. WEDNESDAY 10:30 a.m. UPDATE: Updated mapping shows the Anza Fire at 450 acres and still 50 percent contained. TUESDAY 5:37 p.m. UPDATE: Incident Command now officially estimates the containment of the Anza fire at 50 percent. 2:20…
At 11:42 a.m. Monday, California Highway Patrol reported a motor home with smoke coming out of its engine 3 miles east of Highway 371 on the roadside of Highway 74. U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire engines and personnel were dispatched about noon and arrived on scene to a vegetation fire about a quarter of…
The expected hearing to certify a class-action suit over the legality of the 2012 State Responsibility Area Fire Fee was canceled before it started. On Thursday, Aug. 6, Judge Shelleyanne Chang of the Sacramento Superior Court issued a tentative ruling, both affirming and denying the request for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to certify the…
