Has the time come for local residents to put up locked fences on their property to keep people from destroying it? On Sunday while Jack was unloading trash at the Transfer Station, I watched three deer grazing up on the grassy hillside, not bothered by vehicles coming and going but quite aware of us. We…
I wrote this almost 10 years ago and it still applies: The advantages of snail mail are becoming apparent in the new age of technology. Don’t get me wrong, I love e-mail for several reasons. Columns and letters to the editor don’t have to be retyped. And there is an ease and speed of communicating…
By Marshall Smith Staff Reporter Marilyn Hansen Weare, who with her husband Luther, purchased the Idyllwild Town Crier from founders Ernie and Betty Maxwell in 1971, died at the age of 92 on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. She was living in Yorba Linda at the time of her death. Born into a family of…
With this week’s issue, the Idyllwild Town Crier has more than doubled its circulation from about 2,400 to more than 5,400 by going to full Hill distribution. Everyone with a U.S. Postal Service box in Idyllwild, Mountain Center and Garner Valley will find a free issue of the TC in their mail each week. Many…
Jack, my son Zac and I drove out to my daughter’s in Thomas Mountain Village Christmas morning. The halycon blue sky, snowy mountains, bucolic pastures and fairly clear highways created an idyllic scene for a drive in the country. Traffic was light, contradicting a deluge of snow visitors making their way toward the mountains. We…
Cal Fire, in cooperation with California State Parks, will be conducting a prescribed burn of brush and slash piles in the Mt. San Jacinto State Park off Highway 243. The project was to begin Tuesday, Dec. 13, and continue throughout the week, weather permitting. The final burn date will be determined by permissive burn day…
Jack and I flew to Oakland last Thursday morning to pick up the BART to ride into San Francisco. The California Press Foundation’s 139th Winter Meeting takes place annually the first week of December at the Marines’ Memorial Club. Thursday night, we attended an awards ceremony there and listened to speaker David Talbot, author of…
Here’s urging Supv. Chuck Washington to bring two names before his fellow supervisors soon — two appointees to fill the vacancies on the Idyllwild Water District board. This agency has much business to conduct but current leadership places it in a stalemate. With a five-member board, there’s no way one man can block the others’…
Editor’s Note: We’ll continue to profile propane company representatives and company policies in subsequent editions as well as updating pricing from companies willing to provide that information. In our edition of Nov. 24, we reviewed propane spot prices nationally and regionally, and suggested to readers that it might be to customer advantage to check before…
Cal Trans will have intermittent closures on Highway 243 this Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. from Mt. Edna Road to Smith Creek Road in Banning. The Caltrans Rock Climbing and Bank Scaling Team will be removing slide material and rocks from the slope adjacent to the highway. This specialized team, made up of…
