I just wanted to say I appreciate all the hard work and long hours you put in covering the fire. The Town Crier had the best and most detailed coverage.
Scott Fisher
Pine Cove/Palm Desert
Opinion: Grateful for coverage
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I just wanted to say I appreciate all the hard work and long hours you put in covering the fire. The Town Crier had the best and most detailed coverage.
Scott Fisher
Pine Cove/Palm Desert
Editor: As full–time residents of this beautiful community, we have high praise for Idyllwild’s firefighters and, now, paramedic services. In 2013, as we evacuated the Hill under threat of fire and poor air quality, we were impressed with the professionalism of the Idyllwild Fire Department. Idyllwild Fire personnel met with us and our neighbors at…
Editor: I attended the May 30, Idyllwild Water District workshop on the rate changes to be voted on at the June 20, board meeting, but came away with more questions than answers. First, why were the property owners and tenants not sent a ballot, as required by Proposition 218? [Cal. Const. Article XIII C §…
Editor: One of the attractive resources of the Idyllwild community is the Nature Center and the surrounding Riverside County Park. We volunteered weekly there for eight years doing a variety of chores but for much of the time most of our work was caring for the museum animals. One major issue when we first started…
Editor: Regarding Dr. Platter’s laughable defense of the HUSD salary structure (Nov. 27), I don’t imagine she is dim so I can only marvel at her cynicism. She is well aware that no decent teacher spends only the “contract hours” in the classroom. She and the members of the board know quite well the chaos…
I love the thoughtful reflections published in the Town Crier. I greatly appreciated Bryan Asch’s “Human Etiquette” column (Jan. 29, 2015) and last year’s interview of the enthusiastic young scientist who followed his passion and became an astronomer, specializing in cosmology. But Conor O’Farrell’s “Love is Active” meditation (Feb. 19, 2015) was so great and…
Editor: The article “Illegal campfires are on the rise” was truly alarming. Having evacuated two times in the last 10 years, the fire danger in our forest is huge. From the article, it seems that people are making fires in places where there should simply not be fires. I hope that our forest and fire authorities can impress…