By JP Crumrine Correspondent Thursday, Feb. 23, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced the Department of Justice (DOJ) is opening an investigation to determine whether the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office has engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing. “Unfortunately, today’s announcement is necessary because that trust between Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and…
The fears that the drenching January 2023 rains would be followed by no precipitation the rest of winter and early spring as happened in 2022 have not occurred. Some rain and snow fell on the mountain in early February along with record cold temperatures. The National Weather Service’s San Diego office has reported that winter…
Idyllwild Librarian Shannon Ng has moved up in the Riverside County Public Library System (RCPLS). Although her Dewey Decimal System number remains the same, she is now one of three deputy directors, though “Interim” precedes her current title. In early February, she was balancing her two positions, but on Friday, Feb. 10, RCPLS told her…
Riverside County 4th District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez has postponed tonight’s (Feb. 21) Town Hall meeting in Idyllwild due to the impending storm.
Dr. Marshall Hawkins, founder of the Idyllwild Arts Jazz Department, and Dr. Daniel Bassin, Idyllwild Arts director of orchestras, are giving a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Lowman Concert Hall in honor of Black History Month. The concert features an 18-piece guest jazz orchestra along with jazz and classical music students,…
Riverside County 4th District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez will be at the Town Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, to meet and talk with Hill residents who are now part of his supervisorial district. Having spent many summers at Pathfinder Ranch, Perez is familiar with the Hill. Now he would like to…
Travis Mason is the acting district ranger for the San Jacinto Ranger District (SJRD). He began his tour Jan. 3 and is the latest in a series of “acting district rangers” since Julie Hall left for the Inyo National Forest a year ago. Mason has spent much of his U.S. Forest Service career (more than…
According to the San Bernardino National Forest (SBNF), Garner Valley is the site of pile burning in the next few weeks. The wet weather has delayed the planned burns, which were scheduled for last week, in the Cranston Reforestation Project, according to Lauren Blake, forest fuels prevention officer for the SNBF. “Administrative sites like the…
Last week, the Town Crier reported on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors asking the county executive and its legal staff to develop recommendations to cope with the dramatic dismissal of criminal cases before they could come to trial. The Riverside County Superior Court issued some comments about the situation last week. District Attorney Michael…
A Joshua Tree man was sentenced to two years in prison for a fatality that occurred in 2021 on Highway 243. On Jan. 31, Nathan Daniel McConnell, 40, pleaded guilty to gross vehicle manslaughter and reckless driving causing serious injury on May 9, 2021. McConnell was driving northbound on Highway 243, north of Miller Ranch…
