Spring Equinox Celebration
Spirit Mountain Retreat is hosting a Spring Equinox Celebration at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in the garden, weather permitting. Local Color will perform and participants are asked to bring finger food to share.
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Hemingway series to begin
The Friends of the Idyllwild Library are sponsoring the seminar series “Ernest Hemingway: His Literature, His Life, His Legend” as presented by Hemingway expert Nancy W. Sindelar. As of early Monday morning, 17 sign-ups for the four-part series have been recorded, and it is expected that by the initial session there will be several more…
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Town Hall meeting message: To keep crime down, keep Sheriff’s Department involved
Local crime has fallen since last year, despite the recent break-ins, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Waters. He and Hemet Station Capt. Ray Woods told the community, at a Town Hall meeting Thursday night, to call and report anything strange or unusual. He stressed that calling the Sheriff’s Department to report something unusual…
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State recommends water restrictions
Receiving water when you take a table at local restaurants or freshly washed daily linens at hotels or inns are among the changes the state expects businesses to make in order to adapt to the current drought conditions. On Tuesday, March 17, the State Water Resources Control Board recommended that customers at restaurants and inns…
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Grant money flowing in Idyllwild Water’s direction
Water-recycling facility may be in Idyllwild’s future Although Tom Lynch, Idyllwild Water District general manager, said, “We continue to be on the precipice of Stage 3 [water emergency],” a decision to go to the tightest water conservation measures remains in the future. But the state appears to have agreed to help IWD manage future drought…
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Major injuries in Mountain Center crash
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.
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Grinding facility reopens Saturdays
The Idyllwild grinding facility will resume Saturday operations beginning May 2. On Saturdays, operations will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The facility is located at the 5,000-foot marker, one mile south of the Idyllwild Transfer Station on Highway 243. The grinding facility accepts items such as wood waste and wood infected with the…
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Steele 35th at Palmer
After being in the mix near the top through three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Brendan Steele suffered a tough 4-over-par 36-40 — 76 on Sunday, including a pair of double bogeys on the back nine, that dropped him to a tie for 35th place by the tournament’s end. The native Idyllwilder did post…
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NWS works out new deal with IFPD
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…
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Town Crier new weather station
The National Weather Service officials met with Town Crier owner and co-publisher Jack Clark (left) about establishing a NWS weather recording station in Idyllwild at the paper Tuesday morning. Noel Isla (center), observing program leader, discussed the requirements and equipment and was accompanied by Brett Albright (right).
