Editor’s note: I’m stepping aside again this week to let Jack express an opinion based on his recent investigations. BC It appears that Idyllwild Water District’s GM Tom Lynch is at it again. On Monday, April 11, IWD Director Steve Kunkle sent an email to Lynch asking to attend the next agenda meeting that Lynch…
On April 19, Ira Robert Ellis, 37, of Poppet Flats, had two hearings before Judge Becky Dugan in Department 41, Riverside, of the Riverside County Superior Court. The first was a Marsden/Sanchez hearing in which Ellis, who was represented by a deputy public defender, asserted that he had been denied his right to effective counsel….
Another tough outing for Brendan Steele at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina, last week. He managed only a 12-over-par 76-78 — 154, missing the cut by 10. It seems that he had trouble in all parts of his game. He hit just under 61 percent of fairways and 56 percent of greens…
On April 7, Ira Robert Ellis, 37, of Poppet Flats admitted a felony violation of his Post-Release Community Supervision in Riverside County Superior Court. Hearing Officer Judith M. Fouladi then reinstated his PRCS with the modification that Ellis is sentenced to 88 days in the county jail. On Tuesday, April 19, at 8:30 a.m. in…
Nasir David Powell’s felony settlement conference, set for April 6, was rescheduled for April 26, again at 8:30 a.m. in Department S204, Murrieta. It was the second time his FSC has been continued. Powell, 18, is charged with five felony counts involving various sexual activities with minors ranging in age from 14 to 17 years…
Editor’s note: I’m stepping aside again this week to let Jack express an opinion based on his recent investigations. BC As reported in a previous issue of the Town Crier, Idyllwild Water District General Manager Tom Lynch is taking the position that an individual member of the IWD board may not unilaterally get an item…
Several weeks ago, a Town Crier reader and Hill resident brought to our attention a particular large, gray, jagged rock hovering over Highway 243 near the location of the boulder fall at Dead Man’s Curve in January of this year. (See accompanying photo.) His concern was that it looked as if it would not take…
By Jack Clark Fashion Advisor Q. There was a period of time when corduroy was the “in” thing to wear. I wore corduroy everything — jackets, pants, shorts, socks, underwear, everything. And I loved it. Is there a way to bring corduroy back, Fashion Jack? –Earl Whitworm, Timber, OR A. Become a one-man corduroy movement….
It didn’t go so well for Brendan Steele at the Shell Houston Open last week. He managed only an even-par 70-74 — 144, which missed the cut by one stroke. It was only his third missed cut in 11 starts this season. The Idyllwild native found half of the fairways with drives averaging 307 yards,…
About nine months ago, Cal Fire filed its lawsuit in state court seeking some $8.5 million in damages for Cal Fire’s various costs due to the Mountain Fire of July 15, 2013. But the federal government, which, through the U.S. Forest Service, expended the lion’s share of monies owing to the blaze, has yet to…
