Readers Write: Dear Idyllwild Community
By Tamara McFarland, President, Board of Directors Idyllwild Help Center
By Tamara McFarland, President, Board of Directors Idyllwild Help Center
By Maria Loutzenhiser. A message from the November 12, 2026 edition.
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…...
Merger talks must be legal Dear editor: Regarding an article in last week’s Town crier, it was suggested that Idyllwild Fire, Fern Valley Water and Idyllwild Water were looking into a merger via talks with their legal counsels. In California, according to state statutes regarding independent special districts, all talks regarding mergers must include the…
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…
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….