The Idyllwild Water District Board of Directors and staff met last week to discuss the draft District Employee Personnel Manual. The Personnel Committee and staff have been preparing a new manual for several years. IWD legal counsel Joe Aklufi mediated the meeting and took notes on the needed revisions in order to prepare the final…
A two-vehicle traffic collision with minor injuries just north of Saunders Meadow Road on Highway 243 created one-lane traffic Monday afternoon. Gabriel Michelle Roberts, 52, of Hemet, was traveling northbound in a Subaru Outback, according to CHP Officer Ron Esparza, when she veered into the southbound lane. Michael Curtis Loften, 18, of Mountain Center, was…
(Editor’s note: On Tuesday, Sept. 3, Hemet Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Barry Kayrell and Trustee Vic Scavarda of Idyllwild met with the Town Crier to discuss the “State of the District” and trends in the next few years. This is the second of three parts of the interview.) Do you see HUSD”s growth (student…
Idyllwild Fire Commissioner Pete Capparelli resigned his position at the conclusion of the Sept. 10 commission meeting. “As of tomorrow [Sept. 11], I tender my resignation to step down from the commission,” he said. Capparelli’s term would have ended the first week of December since he had chosen not to seek re-election. Commissioner Dr. Charles…
65 years ago – 1948 The dump, the Town Crier learned, was a popular after-dark rendezvous during the summer. Residents were taking guests there to watch the deer feeding. 60 years ago – 1953 A sudden cold snap hit the mountain; the thermometer dropped to 18 degrees at Kenworthy Station in Garner Valley. 55 years…
Idyllwild School had an API of 908.
Next week, the Idyllwild Community Fund will hold a reception for its nine grant recipients this year. New honorees, along with six repeat recipients, are the Art Alliance of Idyllwild, Idyllwild Scholarship Fund and Idyllwild Arts Foundation. AAI will use its grant to help with the cost to install the “deer herd” at the various…
After a Sept. 10 presentation in which Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz addressed and tried to rebuff many of the issues in the recent ad campaign directed against the district during the election for commissioners, the department’s 2013-14 budget was unanimously approved. Reitz, however, did say that after the escrow for the sale of the…
A two-vehicle traffic collision with minor injuries just north of Saunders Meadow Road on Highway 243 has created one-lane traffic this afternoon. Gabriel Michelle Roberts, 52, of Hemet, was traveling northbound in a Subaru Outback, according to CHP Officer Ron Esparza, when she veered into the southbound lane. Michael Curtis Loften, 18, of Mountain Center,…
