Past Tense: March 24, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
Hazel Cress raised more than $60 for the Mountain Branch of the American Red Cross going door-to-door in a single-day...
Past Tense: March 17, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
A civilian flyer crashed in the Dutch Flat area. Rescuers had found him stumbling barefoot along the highway, after spending...
Past Tense: March 10, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
The Forest Service announced that, beginning in summer, it would issue a special certificate to everyone who climbed to the...
Past Tense: March 3, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
Snow plows were busy with a 2-foot snowfall.
60 years ago - 1956
Chamber Membership Chair Glenn Froehlich reported that reaching the...
Past Tense: February 25, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
Ideas for community betterment were discussed at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Among the suggestions offered: youth projects and recreation...
Past Tense: February 18, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
The Lions Club was making plans to construct a children’s playground adjacent to Town Hall.
60 years ago - 1956
It was...
Past Tense: February 11, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
Town Crier founder and publisher Ernie Maxwell was the moderator of the Chamber’s Community Night for “the Hillfolk’s get-together to...
Past Tense: February
65 years ago - 1951 Idyllwild Fire Chief Bill Price had his truck equipped with a radio so he could keep in touch with...
Past Tense: January 28, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
The paper shortage created by the Korean War caused the Town Crier to announce it was limiting the number of...
Past Tense: January 21, 2016
65 years ago - 1951
Twenty-four men, representing areas from Thomas Mountain to Pine Cove, were taking training as members of the Emergency Auxiliary of...