Editor: Idyllwild property owners have the opportunity to create a town park in the center of Idyllwild. Jo’An’s Restaurant & Bar is for sale to anyone with the cash and desire to create another commercial enterprise. Perhaps a Native American group could buy the property and build a casino immune from county and state codes…
I received numerous responses to my editorial last week, some very good suggestions, too. The primary reaction — and none of the responders said otherwise — was that they need and rely on the Town Crier. So, with that in mind, we’re going to try to figure this out. It may be a new model…
The continuing clean-up of the underground storage tank at the Idyllwild Chevron site is one of 13 projects that have been transferred to the State Water Resources Control Board’s Santa Ana Regional board. The transfer was effective July 1. Riverside County Department of Environmental Health is no longer contracting with the state to oversee these…
Born in Pt. Loma’s Frontier Housing on Jan. 24, 1944, Dail was one of five children born to Eugene C. (New Orleans) and Hope Jackson (Cheyenne, Wyoming and Dickens, Nebraska). He died Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Dail’s parents migrated here in 1936 and 1938. Dail graduated Lincoln in 1961, spent 12 years at Standard Brands…
H. David Mosier Jr., M.D., of March Air Reserve Base in Southern California and Idyllwild, died Monday, May 22, 2017, at home. He was 92. He was born May 22, 1925, in Topeka, Kansas, the firstborn of parents Harry David Mosier, D.D.S., and Josephine Morrow Johnson. His paternal great-grandparents, of Irish and German stock, homesteaded…
No modifications recommended to Zinke The Sand to Snow National Monument, established in Riverside County in 2016, is unlikely to be changed as a result of the current review of 27 national monuments, which U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is conducting. In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing a review…
Preliminary financial data for fiscal year 2016-17 indicate the Idyllwild Fire Protection District produced a significant net income compared to many recent years. “We’re closing out the year in good condition,” reported Commissioner and Treasurer Jerry Buchanan. Net income was nearly $143,000. For the fiscal year, revenues exceeded $2.2 million, while expenses were $2.1 million….
On the evening of Wednesday, July 26, Idyllwild hiker and biologist Jon King was descending South Ridge Trail with his colleague Florian Boyd after their shift at Tahquitz Peak fire lookout. They had almost reached the trailhead near the top of South Ridge Road when they came upon these two Southern Pacific rattlesnakes engaged in a very…
70 years ago – 1947 A new telephone service was inaugurated, offering six trunk lines to Hemet. 65 years ago – 1952 Paul and Mary Gormley were manning the lookout post at Ranger Peak. During the rest of the year, the Gormleys worked as cook and butler for a family in the San Francisco area….
