From 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Feb. 12, an Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation meeting will be held at the Fireside Room in the Nelson Dining Hall at the IA campus. Associates are asked to bring their friends. This meeting is free and open to the public. Mark Davis, director of Summer and Auxiliary programs,…
Budget doesn’t sacrifice quality with these filmmakers You can attend the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema to just view the great movies. But you also can attend the seminars to learn and to hear stories about film making from the professionals. This year, on March 9, festival founder Stephen Savage, and chair of the IIFC,…
Michèle Marsh of Idyllwild will share stories of her life as an actress and her journey back home to our beloved mountains, sponsored by the Friends of the Idyllwild Library, Arts and Culture Programs, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the library. Marsh’s earliest memories are of Idyllwild. She was 4 years old when…
Whether 2018 is the worst flu season since 2013 or the worst in the last 10 years, as some have reported, it has been very bad. Emergency rooms have been overcrowded and many people have suffered. At the Riverside County Board of Supervisor’s meeting last week, Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said, “It’s been…
In an unexpected and unusual move, the County Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) Advisory Committee decided to deny funding for a project at Riverside County Fire Station 23. The committee did not oppose the project — repairing and replacing the deck on the back of the station. Rather, the cost for whole project — construction…
The dueling press releases between the Riverside County’s Sheriff’s Department and the Executive Office did not pass quietly. The Board of Supervisors clearly felt that Sheriff Stan Sniff is not cooperating with KPMG, the consulting firm hired to find savings within the county’s budget, which is hindering their efforts to address the deterioration in the…
Brendan Steele fired a 4-under-par 67 Sunday to tie for 3rd in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He was 15 under for the tournament, only three shots off the lead. For the week, the Idyllwild native found 48 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 315 yards, the longest being 343, and he hit 72…
Are you interested in helping the environment? Do you like to compost or recycle? Become an outreach volunteer with the Riverside County Department of Waste Resources and help the earth by helping others become better recyclers and composters. Outreach volunteers assist with classes or events by interacting with the public, answering questions on outreach programs…
Once again, the Town Crier wishes to thank its advertisers for helping save a real newspaper for our community. The Town Crier offers advertising discounts to advertisers choosing one-year advertising contracts. These contracts help our newspaper plan revenues ahead of time. Currently, there are 11 contracting advertisers: Art Alliance of Idyllwild (Donna Elliott); Fern Creek…
While discussing future budgets at a January Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting, County Executive Officer George Johnson said he has imposed a hiring freeze countywide. Only he can grant exceptions to the freeze. Some, especially the Friends of San Jacinto Mountain County Parks, worried that this countywide hiring freeze would prevent the hiring of…
