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...
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