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From the Archives: As We Were Saying …
This column was originally published in the Town Crier on March 6, 1984. The “Scenic Trail” would later be renamed the “Ernie Maxwell Scenic Trail” after the efforts of County Supervisor Kay Ceniceros. In honor of our 75th year of covering “Almost All the News — Part of the Time,” we will periodically reprint the…
Looking back at an Idyllwild pioneer
Editor’s note: This feature ran in the Town Crier on Nov. 4, 1976. Gladys Humphreys died in January 1979 at age 83. “We used to have a view of Lily Rock and Marion Mountain, but the trees grew faster than this house,” laughed Gladys Humphreys, cozy in the modest home that she and her late…
Idyllwild Town Crier celebrates 75 years of continuous publication
The Idyllwild Town Crier has been serving the San Jacinto Mountains (“the Hill”) continuously for 75 years — since its first issue was published on Nov. 1, 1946. Ernie and Betty Maxwell founded the paper in the attic of their home, using a typewriter and a table-top mimeograph machine. The first issue, pictured here, was…
Lake Hemet Water District approves Halloween Haunt
At its monthly meeting Thursday, Aug. 17, the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District board approved Young Idyllwild’s Halloween Haunt, the Haunted Village on the Lake. The vote was unanimous. Kathy Sacher-Wilson, founder of the month-long Halloween actor and animatronic maze walk spook fest, said the new venue offers greater possibilities. “We posted our flier advertising…
