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
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