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
Editor: Four times in July 2014 I desperately needed to use the EMT services of IFPD due to anaphylactic shock. If IFDP did not exist, I would not exist. I have read over the years the Town Crier’s incessant negative news reporting of the alleged mismanagement, misconduct, abusive behavior by IFPD management. We do have…
70 years ago – 1949 Dr. Harry Pearlman, Louis Pearlman, Louis Artin and Sam Melca started up Devil’s Slide Trail hoping to hike down the desert side. But after nine hours of floundering in snow up to their armpits, they reappeared in Fern Valley. 65 years ago – 1954 A San Bernardino radio show host…
60 years ago – 1957 Police called off the search for Stephen D. Gallagher, who was reported missing while hiking in Tahquitz Canyon. All that was found of him were his clothes and shoes, which he removed before his disappearance. 55 years ago – 1962 Three women joined the Pine Cove fire department’s rescue squad…
Poppy has been adopted. Yea, for finding your forever home. Introducing the survivors from Highway 243: Catnis, the Maltese, Peeta the brown and white, and Rue, the Chihuahua-mix (photo at bottom). For days the community and animal control tried to capture these three from the highway. Patience from our Hill community finally won out. They…
Editor’s note: This letter is being sent to Rep. Dr. Raul Ruiz. Mountain Disaster Preparedness has organized a community meeting called “Storm Lessons Learned and Caltrans/CHP Highway Report.” The meeting will happen on Monday, March 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Idyllwild School Gymnasium. Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D.: On behalf of the Idyllwild…
60 years ago – 1952 MGM was filming “Desperate Search” around Lake Hemet, starring Jane Greer, Howard Keel and Keenan Wynn. The company headquartered at the Idyllwild Inn. 55 years ago – 1957 A reading room was added to the Christian Science Church with Hazel Loy as librarian. 50 years ago – 1962 Idyllwild…