By Michael Fogerty Director of Transportation Hemet Unified School District At about 5 p.m. Monday, July 15, Hemet Unified School District Director/Safety Officer Lucy Rebuck contacted me regarding the possible need to evacuate 250 children from the Ronald McDonald Camp in the Lake Hemet area. Six buses were immediately dispatched to the location. The drivers…
Approximately 66,000 vote-by-mail ballots will be mailed to voters starting Monday (July 29) for the Rancho California Water District and Idyllwild Fire Protection District mail ballot election on August 27. Ballots should arrive in mailboxes by the end of the week. To be counted, the Registrar of Voters office must receive the voted ballots by…
The Idyllwild Area Historical Society’s effort to make old issues of the Idyllwild Town Crier available online in a searchable format for personal historical research is moving along. All issues from 1949 through 1953 have now been beautifully scanned by NewsBank Inc., thanks to a grant from the Idyllwild Community Fund and gifts from the…
The Mountain Fire is the second largest fire in California this year, only the Powerhouse Fire in the Angeles National Forest measuring 30,200 acres was bigger, by about 10 percent. The third largest was the Chariot Fire in the Cleveland National Forest at 7,000 acres. Monday, July 15, began sunny and hot with clear skies….
The July 25 meeting of the Idyllwild Historical Preservation District Local Review Board meeting is cancelled and the next meeting is Aug. 22 at the Idyllwild Library. The ISIS production of “Red,” scheduled for the weekends of July 26 and Aug. 2, has been cancelled.
Thus read the headline of the Town Crier on July 4, 1996, right after the Bee Canyon Fire had burned more than 9,000 acres and knocked at Pine Cove’s back door. “We’re still here” means every bit as much to Hill residents now as it did then.
Next month’s Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines will feature many artists who are returning and familiar to the faithful audience. But one voice will make her inaugural visit to the mountain amphitheatre. Diane Schuur will step onto the Holmes Amphitheatre stage Saturday, Aug. 17, for the first time. Schuur, now living in Palm Desert, is…
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday July 15, to Monday, July 22: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance July 15 — Forest, woods or wildland fire. July 15 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. July 16 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. July 17 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. July 18 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. July…
Although the town of Idyllwild, several thousand people, had been evacuated, a mobile city of about 3,500 people was quickly constructed in Garner Valley. Mountain Fire city is a company town — nearly 3,300 firefighting professionals. With that many people, where do they work, eat and sleep? The company business is to contain and eventually…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Event rescheduled for Aug. 4 due to the Mountain Fire. Relationships among family members, a frequent theme this year, will highlight the final session of the third year of the Idyllwild Authors Series. Series founder Eduardo Santiago will discuss his recent book, “Midnight Rumba,” this Sunday. “Midnight Rumba,” which is set in the…
