Lawrence Allen Edwards, 45, of Idyllwild was charged with embezzlement in a felony complaint filed by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office on Sept. 15, 2014. The complaint alleges that from about January 2013 through March 2014, while in the employ of Mountain Quilters of Idyllwild, he willfully and unlawfully appropriated money to his own…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild served more than 200 free spaghetti dinners at its 36th annual Basket Festival. Soroptimist members sold tickets for chances to win one of nine baskets this year and the drawing is held after members serve up plates of homemade spaghetti to the community. The baskets’ items and most of the…
Open government laws continue to be a challenge for the Idyllwild Fire Protection Fire District. For months, the commission denied it violated the Brown Act and recently misinterpreted both the California Public Records Act and its own Policy 5080, Public Records Act Policy. Although Commissioner Nancy Layton concurred at a public meeting last week that…
Students at Idyllwild School were introduced to special meals from California grown foods last week. Hemet Unified School District, in cooperation with the nonprofit Center for Ecoliteracy, is serving fresh lunches to district students. HUSD has plans to operate the California Thursdays through the remainder of the 2014-15 school year. “We are actually offering California…
At his felony settlement conference, Friday, Oct. 17, Matthew Subish, 41, of Idyllwild, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for possessing a firearm or ammunition. Subish’s previous felony convictions are the reason he is prohibited from possessing a firearm, according to state law. His sentence for this misdemeanor includes three years of probation and 45…
On Wednesday, Oct. 15, the Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced an agreement to litigation CBD had filed for protection of Southern California’s mountain yellow-legged frogs. The Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to prepare a recovery plan for the endangered frogs by December 2018. Recovery plans are a…
Brendan Steele has played the weekend in his first two tournaments of this new 2014-15 PGA Tour season. The native Idyllwilder fired a 9-under-par 68-70-69-68 — 275 to garner a tie for 33rd place in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. He added about $30,000 to his official earnings and…
Fundraising continues strongly in the final weeks of the campaign for the state Senate District 28 seat. Both candidates, Bonnie Garcia of the Coachella Valley and Jeff Stone of Temecula, are raising considerable sums directly for their campaign coffers, while supporters are independently supplying even more money. In the three weeks since the last campaign…
Last Friday was the quarterly meeting of the California Newspaper Publishers Association for which I served for nine years. Since the merging of the CNPA Foundation with the California Press Association last year, the new California Press Foundation is now under the umbrella of CNPA. During my retirement, I stayed connected to the industry through…
Editor’s note: On Oct. 15, Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor Jeff Stone, a candidate for the state Senate’s 28th District, spoke to the Town Crier on a variety of issues from the campaign. This is the first of a two-part article that will continue in next week’s edition. Education and the recent state court…
