Editor:
I appreciate you, Jack, for your eloquent contribution to the difference between a free press and silly rants about “fake news.”
Diann Coate
Idyllwild
Readers Write: To a free press
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Editor:
I appreciate you, Jack, for your eloquent contribution to the difference between a free press and silly rants about “fake news.”
Diann Coate
Idyllwild
Hurray for Griffin. He found his forever and ever home with a feline and a new mom. We still have two found dogs that were roaming between the transfer station and Idyllwild. Call ARF. Buddy is a 3-year-young husky/shepherd-mix. He is such a sweet boy and so eager to learn. Bring a leash and take…
I babysat our fifth grandchild, Finn, while his parents went on their first real date Sunday night since his birth nearly four months ago. With two children of my own and experience watching four other grandchildren, you could expect that Clark here, a seasoned pro, knows every nuance of a small baby’s cries. Afterall, a…
Editor: Aspartame is an artificial sweetener created in laboratory by Monsanto, a pesticide and GMO manufacturer. This sickening sweetness is brought to us in little packets of NutraSweet, Sweeta, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel and Benevia. Diet sodas are full of it, and so are low-calorie, low-fat and sugar free food products. We think we’re eating healthy…
65 years ago – 1951 The wild turkeys turned loose on the Wellman ranch were doing well and reproducing as hoped. 60 years ago – 1956 The annual Chuckwagon Dinner for the benefit of Town Hall netted almost $500. 55 years ago – 1961 Construction of a clubhouse at Tahquitz Lake Golf Course was nearly…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) is in dire straits. The commission confesses the fact when the subject of borrowing money from Riverside County just to get to December is on its agenda. But the commission took no action at its regular meeting on Sept. 13, yet scheduled a special meeting one week later for…
Congratulations for Marshall. His perceptive and fluid writing has garnered him another honor. Last week, the National Newspaper Association announced the winners of its 2012 Better Newspaper Contest. Honorable mention for the best Health Story was awarded to Marshall, a Town Crier reporter since 2005, for his Nov. 3, 2011, story, “Prostate cancer survivors…