Photo by Becky Clark California Highway Patrol Officer M.J. Murawski investigates the scene of a one-vehicle rollover on Highway 74 about 1-1/2 miles west of Highway 243 Wednesday afternoon. Nichole Hutton Darling, 32, of Idyllwild, was traveling eastbound on Highway 74 just before 3 p.m. in a 1989 red Jeep Cherokee when she apparently dozed…
Caltrans will be making road repairs on Highway 243 from mile post marker 1 to 5.25 near the Forest Service to near Point of Rocks Drive this week. One-way traffic control on the highway will occur from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, July 8 to 10. Caltrans will be installing recessed pavement…
A 54-year-old Norwalk man was killed when his Honda touring motorcycle ran off the road at about 10:51 a.m. Sunday. Rafael Nuñez was traveling eastbound on Highway 74 1 mile east of Wilson Way near U.S. Forest Service Cranston Fire Station, said California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. American Medical Response transported Nuñez…
The Riverside County Mobile Health Van at Town Hall today did not have enough T/Dap and whooping cough vaccinations to administer to the people who came. All incoming seventh-grades are required to have the vaccines. Click on the calendar below to see other mobile health van locations for the month of July. However it is advised that you…
Out of six submissions for the Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award, the Town Crier has culled them down to three top candidates the community will now choose among. The honor is given to an individual or group that represents EMax’s spirit of community and volunteerism. Prior awardees took actions that created a spark sufficient to…
Riverside County Fire and Idyllwild Fire responded to a debris fire that caught nearby vegetation on fire in Fern Valley Tuesday night …
Becky Clark Editor Photo courtesy Riverside County Sheriff’s Department A grandmother visiting family in Garner Valley pleaded guilty and was convicted July 8 of willfully harming/injuring/endangering her 2-year-old granddaughter’s personal health after the grandmother left a cup of methamphetamine-laced tea unattended on a counter and the child drank some of the contents on the night…
Idyllwild resident Bobbi Crawford needed a kidney …
Two previous explanations offered by Cal Fire public information officers as to why the Cal Fire investigation reports of last year’s Mountain Fire (“potential future litigation under Government Code section 6254, subdivision (b)” and “one more step left in the investigation”) did not answer the Town Crier’s questions regarding the extent of the agency’s redactions…
Melody Henderson, Cal Fire public information officer, said, “An outbuilding was involved with possible extension into an abandoned building, but they just stopped the forward progress on half an acre of vegetation.” Riverside County/Cal Fire firefighters battled the Willow Fire off of Highway 74 and Willowbrook Road near the U.S. Forest Service Cranston Station. The Forest Service…
