“… I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started… This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I’ve seen you in every corner of the country… You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good…
Author’s press release An Idyllwild author has written a book-length R.S.V.P. — a heartwarming invitation for readers that shows them a way out of whatever’s keeping them from enjoying life. Judy Leighton has been a pain and stress consultant for more than 30 years, helping hundreds of people not only find relief from traumatic memories…
60 years ago – 1957 Pine Dell Estates was a new development in town, just below the village on National Forest Highway [aka Highway 243]. 55 years ago – 1962 It had been 75 days since the last measurable moisture. High temperature for the week was a sizzling 96 degrees. • • • With the…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney in August and the beginning of its year-end playoffs. Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association held the regular monthly tourney in conjunction with the first round of playoffs for club champion on Friday, Aug. 18, at…
The Town Crier has new distribution locations on the Hill. As we’ve advised previously, beginning with this week’s Sept. 7 issue, the Town Crier will no longer be “free on the Hill.” The price is $1 per copy at eight locations: Idyllwild Chevron, Idyllwild Shell, Fairway Market, Lake Hemet Market, Mountain Center Market, Pine Cove…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Aug. 27 to Sept. 2. Idyllwild • Aug. 27 — 911 call from business, 1:54 a.m., 26000 block of Hwy. 243. Handled by deputy. • Aug. 27 — Alarm call, 3:27 p.m., Pine Crest Ave. Handled by deputy….
To visit the site of the 9/11 attacks today, the National September 11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center, is to see a country’s spirit reborn and renewed with haunting tributes, graceful and soaring architecture, somber and beautiful museums, and the sound of water pouring from fountains outlining the bases of the two towers…
Editor: Idyllwild Fire and Idyllwild Water are sub-standard agencies that refuse to fix their problems not because they fail to identify them, but rather they don’t see the importance of doing so. The arrogance is appalling, dangerous and reason enough for dissolution. IFPD won’t be the lead agency saving your home during a wildfire nor…
Editor: My wife and I bought our cabin in Pine Cove in 2012. The cabin was a bank repo and required a lot of work. I wanted to use local “Hill” businesses but sources of information were hard to come by and not always reliable. The Town Crier was the exception and became my primary…
Editor: After many years of vacationing on the Hill, I have always wondered what reference point is used for determining the elevation of our Hill communities: Pine Cove, 6,200 feet; Idyllwild, 5,303 feet; Mountain Center, 4,444 feet. Michael Blurton Pine Cove
