By Janice Murasko Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” ARF cats and kittens talked about how they might find a forever home. Harley: Woohoo! Halloween is almost here! Pepper: And that means a great parade down North Circle. Phil: We cats are pretty safe on this spooky holiday, except in cases of black…
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By Stephanie YostIdyllwild Community Center President With the advent of fall, it’s time to welcome back two traditional mountain community events, both of which the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) puts on. The first is Idyllwild’s annual Great Pumpkin Carnival. Door-to-door trick-or-treating isn’t done on the Hill, with no sidewalks, few streetlights and many second homes….
Tuesday, Nov. 7, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors will consider revisions to Ordinance 927.1, “Regulating Short Term Rentals” (STR). The proposed new Ordinance 927.2 is available on the Town Crier website at https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2023/10/23/proposed-str-ordinance/. The Planning Commission approved major changes to the STR ordinance at its Aug. 23 meeting. Many of the changes involved enforcement…
The Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) project’s funding and water conservation policy were discussed at Idyllwild Water District’s (IWD) Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, Oct. 18. Two virtual guests appeared on screen to discuss IWD’s annual audit and the WWTP. Two aspects of the new WWTP project were discussed that night, the funding possibilities and the…
Caltrans continues work on a $3.7 million bridge upgrade project on highways 74, 79, 86, 111, 243 and I-10, all in Riverside County, weather permitting. The project includes concrete overlay, replacing joint seals on the bridges and repairing/replacing approach slabs. Work will take place in multiple locations in and near the cities of Riverside, Beaumont,…
Hopes were high this past weekend at the Lowman Concert Hall on the Idyllwild Arts Academy campus; with the continued warm weather and clear sunshine on the Hill, a larger than usual turnout was also expected, and as it happened, the situation materialized according to the anticipatory heights. The Saturday evening orchestral concert, ably supervised…
The office of Mayor Max III informed the Crier that last weekend, two video crews were on the Hill documenting the activities of the animal referred to in The Guardian as “California’s Dog Mayor.” The first crew consisted of two film students from Notre Dame University in Indiana, Riley Mandell and Ben Bailey, who are…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors will consider the following short-term rental ordinance Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
Rhonda LeGate peacefully departed this world Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, at her home in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in the loving care of her family. Rhonda was born in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1953. She graduated from Henderson County High School and attended Western Kentucky University. She moved to Idyllwild when her daughter Mimi attended Idyllwild Arts…
