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
After reading the letters to the editor and coverage of the recent events in Idyllwild, I had to wonder to myself what had happened to the town I have known and loved for over 30 years. The town I know is a town where we can disagree about politics, religion, the fire department, water district…
65 years ago – 1946 Harold Sanborn, chair of the Chamber building committee, announced that every Friday was to be Labor Day. Lenny Poates was to have a crew on hand to add to the community building. 60 years ago – 1951 The Lions Club viewed Korean War combat films at Fern Valley Lodge. The…
Editor: We are so grateful for all firefighter and first responder heroes who just saved our community. They were able to do this because they spent the past five years since the Mountain Fire with multiple organizations working together perfecting a plan. They were able to instantly put that plan in place due to years…
I have just one thought after reading the letter titled “Who is Community Center for?” in the Nov. 3 edition of the Town Crier. There is a story of a woman who went to her priest to confess that she had spread rumors about another individual and asked for forgiveness. The priest handed her a…
60 years ago – 1956 The American Legion Post 800 elected Kent Bischof to be Idyllwild’s representative to Boys State. 55 years ago – 1961 The Idyllwild Post Office moved to a new location beside Eleanor Park in the center of town. It boasted 880 boxes, more than twice the former number. 50 years ago…
Editor: As a doctor of chiropractic (DC), I’m on Barry J. Fox’s side. If I were him, I’d be frustrated, too. Why is it that he has to have sub-standard chiropractic benefits after serving our country? Why is it that the state and federally licensed DC right next door can’t give him the care he…