Readers Write: Help clean up the town

Editor:

This cute town could be even nicer if everyone who walked around town picked up one piece of trash. What happened to the sign that said “America’s Cleanest Forest?” Could we please tidy up this town?

Mim Andrews

Idyllwild

Opinion

Parenting your aging parents when they don’t want help
ByIdyllwild Town Crier January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Judith GrahamKaiser Health News David Solie’s 89-year-old mother, Carol, was unyielding. “No, I will not move,” she told her son every time he suggested that she leave her home and relocate to a senior living residence. And it didn’t stop there. Although Carol suffered from coronary artery disease, severe osteoporosis, spinal compression fractures and…

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Letters to the Editor

Readers write: Entitled drivers
By October 26, 2013January 13, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Editor: There is a type of driver who travels our mountain roads that poses a tremendous danger to everyone using these roads. This is the “entitled” driver. There are two basic types. One type, even when you’re driving at the posted speed, will suddenly appear in your rearview mirror and ride your bumper until you…

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Creature Corner

Creature Corner – August 29, 2013
By August 29, 2013January 8, 2014 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Sometimes it’s not even in your plan. Call it fate or the way the wind blew, but at the end of the day, you welcome a new four-legged member into your family. And that’s just what happened with Oreo, our Chihuahua-mix. Now known as Ortega, this little chili pepper won the heart and soul of…

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Past Tense

Past Tense – Nov. 7, 2013
By November 7, 2013January 15, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

65 years ago – 1948 Halloween passed without a major mishap. One prankster painted white ribs on all the horses at the stables. 60 years ago – 1953 In the first official survey of bighorn sheep in the mountains, 141 were observed. 55 years ago – 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Carman…

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Letters to the Editor | Opinion

Opinion: We can rid the crime together
By April 18, 2012January 31, 2013 Reading Time: 2 minutes

My family has been here since the late 1930s to early 1940s, and I have never seen the Sheriffs log with so many burglaries.

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Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Fire fee appropriate cost for here
By August 8, 2012April 18, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

Regarding “Coming soon to mailboxes in rural Riverside County: A new fire tax!” [in the Aug. 2 issue of the Town Crier]. Unless I’m missing something, the concept of a surcharge for fire protection in the WUI (wildland urban interface) seems more than reasonable. I realize that fire protection in Pine Cove (and Idyllwild) costs…

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