2011’s top Idyllwild stories: Part 1
The Town Crier looks back at the headlines that made the biggest local news …
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Creature Corner: Dec. 29, 2011
Happy New Year from the many four-leggeds, and two, at the ARF house. If our pets could talk, what New Year’s resolution do you think they would have?
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U.S. Forest Service 2012 budget passed
After a quarter of the federal fiscal year has transpired, President Barack Obama signed Public Law 112-74, which authorizes funding for federal agencies through Sept. 30, 2012, the end of the federal fiscal year. Congress passed the appropriations bill on Dec. 17. Six days later, on Dec. 23, the President signed it. Although funding for…
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A filmmaker describes making his first indie film
Andrew Fisher, writer and director of this year’s “Buttons in the Ground,” an Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema featurette …
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In a fast sport, Idyllwild skeleton athlete Salter keeps her head up
Salter spends hours every day preparing to use and to risk her skeleton …
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Opinion: Idy Rewards program
Come on! Really? There are scrooges among us. We enjoy going out to eat at our local restaurants on a daily basis. Then grab a movie every couple of weeks at the Rustic Theatre for the ridiculous low fee of only $8. We like to think it helps support the local economy. We were thrilled…
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Top Idyllwild-area 2011 nature photos
The top wildlife photos are reprinted for your enjoyment …
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Opinion: Altruism exists
During the holiday season, please take pity on poor Jeff Smith. In his Dec. 22 letter, “Volunteers have reasons,” in the Town Crier, he is unable to conceive that anyone would volunteer for service to the community without an ulterior motive. Like Ebenezer Scrooge before that fateful Christmas Eve, he delivers a hearty “Bah! Humbug!”…
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Christmas on the Hill
At Christmas, Idyllwild turns on its holiday twinkle, with colored lights on the downtown Christmas trees and with shops, restaurants and homes brilliant in their nighttime sparkle …
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Initial Thoughts: Christmas thoughts — past and present …
As we quickly approach the end of 2011, the Town Crier’s 65th year and the centennial of our founder, Emax, Ernie Maxwell, I wish to give you, our faithful readers, the gift of another Emax column. Below are his thoughts from Dec. 22, 1961. Sometimes the commerce of Christmas time overwhelms the truly important values…
