On Wednesday, March 26, at about 1:30 a.m., Antonietta Zuber was awakened by the sound of a motor vehicle outside the home she shares with her husband, Peter Zuber. “It was a large, white vehicle, extremely noisy,” she told the Town Crier, “perhaps a diesel.” It was pulling what appeared to be an empty utility…
Born June 25, 1931, during the Depression to a struggling Catholic family in the Irish Ghetto of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y., Bill Masterson felt blessed to spend his last years overlooking the mountains of Idyllwild and the ocean of Mendocino from his beautiful home. Before his full retirement, Bill and his wife Julie enjoyed 17…
Idyllwild Contemporary Book Club For its inaugural reading, this new book club will launch into Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior.” The first meeting is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Nature’s Wisdom. For more information, call Gina Genis at 659-6256 … Idyllwild Garden Club Christine Lampe will talk on bee-friendly gardening at the next…
The Rustic Theatre hosts INHALE, a reggae/rock/punk/ska band from Riverside, this Friday, March 28 at 10 p.m. The show is part of the Rustic’s effort to bring more live music to Idyllwild and establish the theater as a local music venue. INHALE already has a strong local following. The band was formed in 2005 and…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale presents a musical banquet with its Spring Concert at Stephens Recital Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus on Saturday, March 29. Led by Artistic Director Dwight “Buzz” Holmes and featuring returning guest artists Dimyana Pelev and Justin Patrick Holmes, the chorale aims to satisfy all appetites from classical to musical theater….
At the third meeting of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Finance Committee, the members learned about the complicated processes of collecting fees for emergency medical service and for fighting fires outside the district. Chief Patrick Reitz explained that final ambulance payment depends on whether the individual has insurance and who the insurer is. Medicare and…
The company continues its 11th season with a reading of Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney’s “Parallel Lives” …
All three of the Hill’s local water districts — Fern Valley, Idyllwild and Pine Cove — rely on groundwater for their customers. For PCWD, groundwater is the exclusive water source; for the other two districts, diversions from local streams also are a source. While none of the local districts has expressed any concern about the…
Be prepared to evacuate your Hill domiciles, was the message of the latest Mountain Disaster Preparedness meeting last week. Nothing imminently threatens the Hill’s residents, but all of the speakers at Tuesday’s meeting, held at Idyllwild Library, emphasized the importance of being prepared for an emergency. Many of the speakers used the example of the…
