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: I don’t want to live here anymore. Last month, I wrote a letter to the editor saying how blessed I felt to live in a community where we could have our wonderful community activities such as our Master Chorale. However, on weekends since Christmas, with our much-needed snow, I have been held hostage in…
Editor: Nicole, in your letter “Evolution is not a fact” you’re correct, evolution is indeed theory and not fact. There has always been confusion with “theory” however. In scientific terms, theories are not someone’s opinion or guess, these are hypotheses. Scientific theories begin as a hypothesis, experiments happen, facts and data are collected, analyzed, then…
Editor: Perhaps Hemingway understood the character of John McCain the best by depiction of Robert Jordan, the protagonist of “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” who was John McCain’s literary hero, as he said in an article in the New York Times: “I have felt that way since I was boy of 12, reading Hemingway’s ‘For…
Shortly after being appointed to the Idylwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Board of Commissioners in July 2008, I ran across California Public Resources Code 4125, which deals with the establishment of “State Responsibility Areas”(SRAs) by the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in wildland areas such as ours. Section 4125(a) reads, “The board…
Editor: In the article about the forest being too dense, the recommendation was to trim existing trees up 15 to 30 feet and remove the young ones. If I trimmed my older trees up that high, I would no longer receive their shade, and my home, soil, plants and area temperature would be hotter, causing…
Rain is pure and clean as snowmelt, percolating into groundwater. Listen to any expert, not the fear-mongers. There are low-cost alternatives to just snowmelt. Water security means fire security. Sharon Kaffen Pine Cove