Readers Write: Disappointment
By Idyllwild Town Crier
Editor:
I am saddened by the events of the Memorial Day Weekend yard sale. Never in 28 years of living in Idyllwild have I had signs pulled down, replaced by someone else’s yard sale signs, or crumpled and thrown by the roadside.
Aren’t we are all supposed to be neighbors having fun and helping each other? We have so much to be grateful for because we live on the Hill. Let’s honor this beautiful blessing.
Fred Lemeshevsky
Idyllwild
65 years ago – 1947 The U.S. Forest Service reported the insect situation had become critical in the Idyllwild area. Warm weather added another hatch of bugs and 750 trees were infected. 60 years ago – 1952 The season’s rainfall totaled 43 inches. • • • Town Crier saluted Denis Evarts Bowman as one of…
Our annual San Francisco trip in December for the California Press Foundation winter meeting proved eventful for more than just receiving an award this year. We left home with my son, his wife and two children in their car at 4:30 a.m. Thursday to catch a train in Bakersfield. Mandy drove a tired bunch who…
I thought it would be best to alternate my health columns between policy issues affecting health care and pressing health care problems affecting all of us. From the beginning of the human race, mankind had to deal with diseases. Infectious diseases were the most common threat to humans. This was made more serious by the…
Editor: My husband and I recently celebrated our first anniversary of living on the Hill. After nine years of desert living, we made our great escape and have had no regrets. Our celebration included an enjoyable meal with the wonderful hospitality from the Gastrognome, followed by a stunning dramatic reading by the Idyllwild Theatre Company….
Editor: I recently received a copy of your article on the Pine Cove Water District budget and standby charges. The article also reported on emailed and public comments made by me regarding the 30th anniversary of standby charges. The article cogently identifies commingling of standby and other revenue as the culprit for a failure to…
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