A two-vehicle collision on Tollgate Road, near the intersection with Lake Lane, sent two people to off-Hill hospitals and blocked the well-trafficked street for several hours. A preliminary report from California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer said the collision occurred at 8:36 a.m. Friday, June 12, and involved a gray Yukon and a…
On Friday, June 12, Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff approved using body cameras on deputies countywide. Deputies will have the discretion on when to turn the recording devices on. Full deployment will require several years and funding, according to the Sheriff’s Department press release. Deputies in the Jurupa Valley have been testing the cameras on…
A previously reported head-on fatal collision in Anza has now been reclassified as “attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon” by the California Highway Patrol and is under further investigation. The Monday, June 8, incident involved two men from Anza, William Gibson, 56, and Steven Rusing, 51. According to the initial CHP report, Gibson…
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Richard Mozeleski gave these reports on Kids Baseball: Well, the Town Hall baseball season has opened for 2015 with an exciting and fun week. The T-ballers started out with typical hilarious, non-laughs and cheers. There were great hits and actually some outs were made at first base and home plate. The…
Tod Goldberg is a much-lauded novelist with a wicked sense of humor. He returns to wrap up Eduardo Santiago’s fifth-annual Idyllwild Authors Series on Sunday, June 28. If you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry at life’s absurdities and enjoy a well-crafted piece of fiction — dark, zany and touching — Goldberg’s discussion of…
Nancy Borchers of Pine Cove is accomplished, in many art media and in many career incarnations. And she is modest. As she likes to explain, she gets interested in something and then just gets it done. “I’ve never really thought too much,” she said. “I just go on gut feelings. I see something and just…
Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan announced a number of new hires for key management positions including film chair, music chair, chief development officer and director of programs. Each will be profiled in articles beginning this week. Heather Netz, current music faculty and assistant to the music chair, will take on greater responsibility as orchestra…
Nepal suffered from two major earthquakes in the past two months, both over magnitude 7. A 7.8-magnitude quake occurred April 25 killing nearly 9,000 people and injuring more than 23,000 and a 7.3-magnitude quake occurred about two weeks later on May 12. The devastating tragedies were half-a-world away from Idyllwild, yet this mountain town responded,…
By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier It’s summer, school is out and the Idyllwild Nature Center is once again offering the Junior Naturalist Program for children ages 7 to 12. The first program is “All About Water,” a timely topic for all ages. Children will learn about the water cycle, do an experiment,…
