At about 4 a.m. last Thursday, Mile High Café, Idyllwild Ice Cream & Jerky and Fratello’s Ristorante & Pizzeria were all broken into by three individuals. “They broke into Mile High Café at 4:06 a.m., took our cash register and receipt printer and got out by 4:09 a.m.,” said Grace Han from Mile High Café….
As of Tuesday morning, four people are still missing from Idyllwild or surrounding areas. The Idyllwild Town Crier reached out twice to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD). Once on Friday, and again on Monday, to get more information about what the agency is doing to locate the four people still missing and to get…
Back at the end of 2019, Isaiah Garcia-Plazola was a senior at Helen Hunt Jackson’s independent study program. At the time, 17-year-old Garcia-Plazola shared the story of his tough upbringing and his decision to change his life for the better. Garcia-Plazola was asked to speak at the Hemet Unified School District’s State of the District…
The retail space next to Café Aroma has been intermittently filled with art over the years. Golden Pine Gallery recently moved in after the space had been vacant for some time. Julianna Poldi, the owner, opened the gallery in July. While Poldi shows her own artistic paintings, she also has other artists’ work on display….
On June 19 Pine Cove Water District (PCWD) General Manager Jerry Holldber dispatched a missive to each customer in Pine Cove in which he denigrated the Town Crier’s coverage of the water district. He claimed this newspaper had published “many stories” that were “filled” with misleading and incorrect information about PCWD. I was not aware…
For the tenth consecutive year, the Idyllwild Town Crier is requesting nominations for the annual Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award. Bring your nomination to the Town Crier office at 54405 N. Circle Dr., mail it to P.O. Box 157, Idyllwild, CA 92549, or send by email to melissa@towncrier.com by Thursday, Aug. 27. The honor is…
Carrying on our focus on effective communication. What supports it and what undermines it? In 1994, John Gottman, Ph.D., published a small book titled, “Why Marriages Succeed or Fail…and How You Can Make Yours Last.” In it, he shared years of scientifically based research on married couples and challenged some long-held ideas of mental health…
California is still a hot coronavirus state. Pretty definitely, in the beginning we were not all protecting each other by masking and social distancing. We’re pleased to see that seems to have improved a great deal up here over the last several weeks. The county reported a total of 20 cases with our first COVID-19…
Due to increasing numbers of people getting sick with COVID-19, nurses are noticing how many people are not taking it seriously or are just not believing COVID-19 even exists. Nurses want people to know what it’s like when you have tested positive for COVID-19 and need to be hospitalized. You go to the hospital with…
After receiving multiple inquiries about the noisy dump trucks coming in and out of the Foster Lake area dumping rock at early morning hours on Idyllwild Water District’s (IWD) property, the Town Crier reached out to the IWD General Manager Leo Havener to find out what was going on. The newspaper never received a response….
