2012’s top stories: Part 2
Editor’s note: At the end of each year, the Town Crier looks back at the headlines that made the biggest local news during the year …
Idyllwild News
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Kidnapping, carjacking, injury at bottom of Highway 74
Around 8:40 am. on Saturday, Dec. 29 a Riverside County Sheriff’s community service officer stopped to give assistance to an injured man on Highway 74, east of Strawberry Creek, between Mountain Center and East Hemet. The man reported he had been fueling his car at a station on Chicago and Florida around 5:30 a.m. when…
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Burglars hit Lake Hemet Market early Saturday morning
In scenarios similar to recent Idyllwild commercial burglaries, burglars broke into Lake Hemet Market in the early morning of Saturday, Dec. 29. Manger Alex Tomazin said they apparently used a small propane tank to break the glass in the market’s front door sometime between 6:15 and 6:45 a.m. Just as in the Fairway Market incident,…
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Idyllwild Water purchases land and plans tank expansion
In its last meeting before 2013, the Idyllwild Water District board changed the number of paid employee holidays, continued to move forward on additional storage capacity in the Tollgate Zone and kept the same committee memberships for the coming year. The number of holidays will be 14 in 2013. This includes 12 calendar holidays such…
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Holiday closings: New Year’s 2012
Hill businesses and institutions that will be closed Tuesday, Jan. 1, to observe the New Year’s Day holiday: Area post offices BBVA Compass Bank Fern Creek Medical Center Fern Valley Water District Idyllwild Health Center Idyllwild Library Idyllwild Pharmacy Idyllwild Transfer Station Mt. San Jacinto State Park U.S. Forest Service These will be closed Monday…
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News of Record – Dec. 28, 2012
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Tuesday, Dec. 17 to 25, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Dec. 18 — Medical aid, Dickenson and Glen roads, Idyllwild. Dec. 19 — Medical aid, River Road, Idyllwild. Dec. 19 — Water problem, Marian View Drive, Idyllwild. Dec. 19 — Walk-in medical…
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Snow, ice and low-top shoes — RMRU rescues unprepared hiker
Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit, working with Hemet Station deputies and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Aviation, responded to Christmas Day reports of an overdue and lost hiker. According to the Sheriff’s department press release, the 35-year-old man from San Diego began his hiking on Saturday, Dec. 22, from the Highway 74 intersection with the Pacific Crest…
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Reitz and Fern Valley discuss hydrants
Idyllwild Fire Protection District Chief Patrick Reitz attended the Fern Valley Water District board meeting to discuss how his department and the district could work more cooperatively. Of particular concern, Reitz said at the Friday, Dec. 21, meeting, were district hydrants and who, district or department, had responsibility for identifying, maintaining and testing the hydrants….
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2012’s top stories: Part 1
Editor’s note: At the end of each year, the Town Crier looks back at the headlines that made the biggest local news during the year …
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Robbery and assault mar local holiday
Two serious criminal incidents marred Idyllwild’s Christmas holiday. On Friday, Dec. 22, around 5:45 p.m, Hemet Station sheriff’s deputies responded to the Idyllwild Chevron Station. Two older men, Robert Child, 68, and Rick Holmes, 67, both of Idyllwild, sustained facial and head injuries when a man attacked them. Child had been fueling his vehicle when…
