The U. S. Forest Service has scheduled its four bald eagle counts for this winter. All counts will be on the Saturday mornings of Dec. 10, Jan. 14, Fe...
Snow guessing winner announced
The winner of this year’s Town Crier Snow Guessing Contest is Maggie Kieffer of Indio. Kieffer entered her son’s birthday, Nov. 27, at Merkaba ...
Grinding facility closing Mondays: Open on Wednesdays and Fridays
The Idyllwild grinding facility will be closed Mondays from Dec. 5 through April 24, 2017. Weekday operations will continue on Wednesdays and Fridays ...
Past Tense: December 1, 2016
55 years ago - 1961 The Forest Service conducted an inventory of timber in the May Valley area where a critical insect problem exsisted to appraise v...
Creature Corner: December 1, 2016
Last week in Days of Our Nine Lives, ARF cats and dogs were excited about the annual tree lighting event. Leia: I heard that our ARF humans had lots ...
Fire & Forest: December 1, 2016: MCFSC plans community meeting …
MCFSC PLANS COMMUNITY MEETING . . . As we start the last month of the year, the landscape around us is going through its annual change that takes plac...
Readers Write: December 1, 2016: Our Hitler
Editor: In our house, Nov. 25 is called Markmas because it is exactly a month before Christmas, and my husband, Mark’s, birthday. He loves holidays an...
Readers Write: December 1, 2016: Who’s doing the shafting
Editor: Noting letter “America still has a pulse” from Mark Dean in Nov 24, 2016, Town Crier where he says “Middle Americans have been getting shafted...
Readers Write: December 1, 2016: Did my vote get changed?
I checked on my vote on Nov. 24, 2016, and was left with a couple of questions. I wrote the following to the elections department of Riverside County:...