Idyllwild students attending Hemet High School will no longer need a bus pass, thus saving their families about $520 annually for the pass. “Parents will no longer be required to pay fees to receive home to school transportation,” the district said in a press release. At its April 7 meeting, the Hemet Unified School District…
The Finance Committee of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District has scheduled a special meeting at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, in the district’s conference/training room at the fire station, 24160 Maranatha Drive, Idyllwild. The two main items on the agenda will be discussions of restructuring of the IFPD’s finances and long-term debt and a potential…
A late-evening fire on Saturday destroyed the workshop of Karson Meltzer on Marian View Drive. Idyllwild Fire responded and kept the fire confined to that building. All photos by Jenny Kirchner. Karson reportedly was at the home of a friend at the time the fire broke out. There were no injuries, but Karson related that…
The continuing grip of the drought has resulted in a new executive order imposing mandatory water reductions throughout the state. On Wednesday, April 1, the Department of Water Resources recorded the lowest snowpack and within hours Gov. Jerry Brown signed the executive order. According to DWR, this “was the first time in 75 years of…
At 11 a.m. Monday, March 23, a motorcycle driven by Zachary Thibodeaux, 18, of Indio, collided head-on with a vehicle containing a family and two small children.
Wednesday, March 18, the Town Crier reported that, after a Tuesday meeting with National Weather Service officials here in Idyllwild, the Town Crier had agreed to purchase automatically reporting Davis Pro weather station equipment to become the official Idyllwild NOAA/NWS COOP station in place of Idyllwild Fire. On Friday, March 20, Noel Isla, COOP program…
The recent flurry of rain and snowstorms have not yet made a significant addition to the Hill’s water supply. Consequently, the drought is expected to enter its fourth-consecutive year. But the month of February did bring a milestone — the warmest February recorded. According to the National Weather Service, Idyllwild’s average temperature in February was…
On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Chuck Washington, Temecula city councilman and mayor pro tem, to fill the vacant 3rd District seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. Washington, 62, is expected to take his seat on the Board at its Tuesday meeting, March 10, according to Raymond Smith, the county’s public information…
Stage 3 water emergency is imminent depending upon how much rain and snow arrives this weekend, according to Idyllwild Water General Manager Tom Lynch. “We are in Stage 2. However, we meet the criterial level for Stage 3,” Lynch reported to the IWD directors. “We are evaluating day-to-day.” Two important criteria for declaring Stage 3…
In November 2014, California voters overwhelming approved Proposition 1, a bond measure to provide financing to increase water supply, provide clean, safe and reliable water, and restore habitat. The total amount authorized was $7.5 billion to be allocated among seven categories: water storage, watershed protection and restoration, groundwater sustainability, regional water management, water recycling and…
