Dear editor:
Wow! Twenty-seven culverts between Mountain Center and Idyllwild and water still runs across the road near the road leading to the dump.
Bud Hunt
Idyllwild
Readers Write: Culverts
By Idyllwild Town Crier

Dear editor:
Wow! Twenty-seven culverts between Mountain Center and Idyllwild and water still runs across the road near the road leading to the dump.
Bud Hunt
Idyllwild
65 years ago – 1948 At long last, a suitable place was found for a mountain branch of the county library — a small building on the Fern Valley Lodge property. Volunteer librarians were being sought. 60 years ago – 1953 Sierra Club members of the rock climbing division again tackled Tahquitz Rock. Several new…
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