I commend you for your outstanding coverage of the Mountain Fire and the pictures your fearless photographer took of the event. You truly served the members of the community.
Paula DeBlanc
Idyllwild/Escondido
Opinion: Outstanding coverage
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I commend you for your outstanding coverage of the Mountain Fire and the pictures your fearless photographer took of the event. You truly served the members of the community.
Paula DeBlanc
Idyllwild/Escondido
Editor: We asked the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council Board of Directors some questions about the radical new fire-abatement laws being worked on at their last meeting. We are hoping for answers. Have you done a cost assessment? Have you analyzed the project to determine its total cost to this community? A large expense will…
Editor: Canceled again? I tried to attend the fire abatement meeting last week at 1 p.m. and it was canceled. Since October I’ve been trying to find out what in the world they are doing? They announced big plans and big changes to existing fire-abatement laws more than three months ago. I see a lot…
I was just talking to Ron-the-drywaller who has a sideline business of harvesting firearm ammunition brass from target shooting sites in the San Bernardino Mountains south of the 10 freeway and reselling it online. He said the Bee Canyon road is once again laden with much brass from recent target shooting. Isn’t that area closed…
Editor: I have the right to say how I feel and so do you. I appreciate your response. I wrote about observations, not judgments. Thank God we live in America and can enjoy our freedom of speech. When I came to America in 1956, it was a different America than we live in now. You…
Dear editor:Dear editor,Anybody who wonders why COVID-19 cases keep rising in the U.S., with more than 1,000,000 confirmed last week, need only to have spent five minutes in downtown Idyllwild over the Thanksgiving weekend.Americans have burned out on caution. We seem willing to gamble that by avoiding crowds of 500 or more, and wearing masks…
Editor: Re: “Public urges Idyllwild Water to permit new construction,” I applaud the water district’s policy of refusing to sell new water meters. I have been a resident of Idyllwild, living in the same house on Double View Drive, since 1982. I retired to Idyllwild for the beauty and peace. I remember when two or…