Opinion: “Re-Imagining” the Thrift Store
By Town Crier Contributor
We’re finally getting a glimpse of what the Help Center Board of Directors has in mind. We as a community need to speak up. By being so generous with wonderful donations and financial aid for forty years, Idyllwild has shown that its support for this institution is very strong. We are right to be extremely…
Counterproductive curbs Dear editor: Wasted water is a topic worth adding to the list of issues created by the county’s latest push to build more curbs along the town’s roadways. While storm water is collected and channeled along roads, it is often ignored after being discharged into the landscape. In Idyllwild, this “flush-and-forget” approach has…
Cost of the new public restrooms Dear editor: I read with great interest in the latest edition of the Town Crier information regarding the new public restrooms that “the construction was funded by $580,570 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated by Supervisor Washington and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors for tourism and…
New curbs are a blight Editor’s note: This letter was sent as an email to Riverside County supervisors V. Manuel Perez and Chuck Washington. Dear editor: Please stop the Idyllwild paving curb installation project now and fix the enormous berms installed. The long-awaited paving project is well into the last phase with installing what were…
It takes a village Dear editor: This couldn’t be truer than it is now. ARF works hard to educate the “village” as to pet care and the importance of spaying/neutering. We all need to be responsible for our own dogs and cats, and we all need to help in curbing the annual kitten explosion. Sadly,…
Houses Painted Black Dear editor: An open appeal to my fellow denizens of this lovely mountain village: Please stop painting your houses black. I suspect that this all started as a prank, a macabre jest to rattle the neighbors, right? But the joke has gotten seriously out of hand when every third house on the…
Voting for FVWD directors Dear editor: This letter authorized by the board of directors for the Fern Valley Water District is intended to respond to the Town Crier’s Nov. 23, 2023 letter from Danny and Colleen McDonald. First, let us make it abundantly clear that the district has always followed California’s Uniform District Election Law….
