The Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit completed another all-night rescue of a badly injured hiker in the Marion Mountain Trail and Black Mountain drainage area. A father and son got off trail, lost and used a cell phone to summon help. Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the area of Marion Campground, Idyllwild, around…
It’s time to terminate the IFPD and CSA 38 special assessments. Congress passed, the President signed and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that each resident of the country, legal or not, must have health insurance. Wow! It pays 100 percent of our paramedic and ambulance service — when up to this point only 36 percent…
Lisa Haley and her Zydekats, one of the most popular bands to play in Idyllwild, return to the Summer Concert Series on Thursday, July 19. Like an approaching summer storm front, with intimations of heat lightning and heavy humidity, Haley and her Kats arrive with thunder and the promise of combustion. The storm arrives,…
Local resident Dr. Richard Goldberg received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine at a ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The ceremony, held Sunday, July 1, recognized Goldberg’s more than 40 years serving L.A. County USC Hospital. He was one of its…
Idyllwild Pines Camp is a business because it’s one of the few camps that operates with no funding from any outside help. They are here for the people that want what they have to offer. When those people come to the camp, they come here for the chance to learn more and to leave the…
I am writing in response to the person who wrote the letter in last week’s Town Crier complaining about the leash law. The key word is “law.” The law isn’t arbitrary, ambiguous or open to interpretation. You can’t choose which laws you will obey and which ones you won’t. Do you choose to stop at…
OK, Idyllwild, here’s a modest proposal for the “elephant in the room” on the Hill. Are we really going to continue this path of self-indulgent public sniping without substantiation (i.e. libel) or any sincere attempt to personally resolve perceived problems, call it free speech (an insult to the concept) as an excuse for a lack…
Idyllwild Professional Cleaning went up against Forest Lumber on Wednesday night at Idyllwild School during the first game of the season for Town Hall adult coed softball.
We had a great couple of days during the Fourth on Daffodil Hill. The “non-fireworks” were better than those in San Diego. Big surprise this evening when my credit card called and advised me of probable fraudulent charges against my credit card. The caller knew the charges that originated in Michigan were not in accord…
