Vehicle overturns on Hwy. 243
Idyllwild Fire Protection Department personnel and Idyllwild Volunteer Company 621 responded to a report of a single vehicle that overturned around 7:55 a.m. on Thursday morning on Hwy. 243 just before Marion View Drive. The occupant was transported to Hemet Hospital with minor injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation
Propositions 34 and 36: Death penalty and three strikes
Proposition 34, Death Penalty
Polls show growing support for Proposition 34, an initiative to repeal the death penalty in California, but passage still remains unlikely at this time. Current law makes first-degree murder punishable by either death or life in prison without the possibility of parole when special circumstances are proven. Those circumstances include murder carried out for financial...
Past Tense: Oct. 25, 2012
65 years ago - 1947
Town Crier wound up its first year of publication, written, mimeographed and mailed from the Maxwell home. News was brought right to the front door as the Maxwells did not have a telephone.
60 years ago - 1952
Disaster struck an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. James Bowlin, when their Thomas Mountain cabin burned to the ground....
SCE schedules electrical outage for upper Fern Valley on Oct. 30
Southern California Edison plans an electrical outage affecting upper Fern Valley on Tuesday, Oct. 30 during the hours from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. The cited reason is line maintenance. The outage boundaries are on the north Forest and Forest Haven Drives, east Forest Drive, west Forest Haven and south, Silver Tip Lane. Affected households should have received a...
A new spin on Halloween in Idyllwild
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District, in conjunction with the Annual Idyllwild Halloween Parade and Carnival, announced a new feature to be added to the parade route — Trunk or Treat.
Trunk or Treat participants will decorate their vehicles and hand out goodies at the sides of the parade route. Vehicles will not drive the route but must be appropriately and...
Photographer Eve Fowler speaks at Idyllwild Arts
The Inter Arts Department at Idyllwild Arts Academy welcomes photographer, artist and curator Eve Fowler on Thursday, Oct. 25.
Fowler will present a lecture on both her practice and her recent posters based on Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Her current project continues her exploration of language used in nonconventional ways to explore different interpretations of common vernacular and its ambiguity.
In...
RMRU performs dangerous night rescue
Two University of California, Riverside, students attempting to scale a difficult climbing route called Fingertrip on Tahquitz Rock in Idyllwild, encountered equipment difficulties and became stranded on a narrow rock ledge halfway up the monolith’s face.
Climbers Brian Wong and David Wilmer began their Sunday, Oct. 21, climb around midday. About seven hours later, as cold fog began to...
Obituary: Gerald (Jerry) R. Holsclaw Sr.
Gerald R. Holsclaw, Sr., 94, of Carson City, Nev., passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 25, 2012. He was born on Jan.17, 1918, in Otis, Colo., to Clinton Vane and Laura Reed Holsclaw.
He attended Chaffey College and the University of Washington and received his bachelor of arts degree in International Relations at USC.
He served with distinction in the...
Obituary: Lolita Mae Watkins
Lolita Mae (Reynolds) Watkins, 84, passed away Sept. 1, 2012, in her Pine Cove home from natural causes. Born Oct. 10, 1927, in Bell, Calif., to Barton Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Dedrick) Reynolds. Her siblings were Merle, Warren and Camille who deceased before her. She was raised in Long Beach and Compton.
She was a graduate of Compton College upper...
Opinion: Paris the Cat
Paris the cat goes to Colorado!
Very soon Paris, the ARF Cattery Ambassador, will be living in Colorado.
Paris and her family appreciate you all for your community support.
Paris will be missing her ARF family, but will keep in touch.
She has enjoyed all that Mayor Max had done in short amount of time and continues on his “Pawsitive” mission.
It’s great to...