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A Healthy Idyllwild: Prostate care
By June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Nothing in this article is meant to be medical advice. Please consult you own healthcare provider for any questions or issues concerning you own health status. Some info below taken from: www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/understanding-prostate-changes www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/ www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/pdf/prostate_health_tips.pdf Gentlemen, please do not neglect your prostates. Know the symptoms of problems and get your regular checkups. True enough, at least…

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Wildfire season to be challenging, say secretaries
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 2 minutes

(This story was taken from a USDA press release.) U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Interior Secretary Ryan K. Zinke joined forces in Boise, Idaho, last Friday at the National Incident Fire Command Center for a tour and briefing on the upcoming wildfire season. Following the events, the secretaries sent a memorandum to…

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Public Records Act may get teeth
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 2 minutes

(This story is from a California News Publishers Association release.) On Tuesday, May 30, the California Assembly overwhelmingly approved a measure that would impose fines on agencies that knowingly violate the California Public Records Act. AB 1479 by Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Alameda) would give courts the power to charge a government agency up to $5,000 for delaying or…

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Sports

Sports: Baseball & Golf
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Baseball Town Hall Youth Sports Coordinator Cindy Luna gave this report for Youth Baseball last week. T-Ball League: The T-ball season came to an exciting finish for the record crowd on Thursday, June 1. Idyllwild Vacation Rentals Angel Ethan Caster led off with a Baltimore chop, getting him to first base almost before the ball…

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Brendan Steele | Sports

Steele 57th at the Memorial
ByJack Clark June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

Brendan Steele did not seem to find the Muirfield Village course to his liking last week at the Memorial tournament. He struggled finding fairways and greens in regulation and finished tied for 57th. He did rally in the late holes of Friday’s second round, however, to make the cut comfortably by 2 strokes. The Idyllwild…

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Art & Culture

Reporter takes national award
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

Idyllwild Town Crier Staff Reporter Marshall Smith has garnered another honorable mention this year, this one for Best Sports Feature Story for “Todd Carpenter finishes first in under 50 in Race Across the West” that ran last year. The award was from the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Editorial Contest in the Daily and…

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Columns | Dr. Tom

Dr. Tom: Poverty …
ByKluzak, Tom & Kathy June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I’ve got a really strange idea and here is how it happened. I read a news report about Ben Carson, our secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in which he was quoted as saying that poverty is a state of mind. I took that to mean that poor people are to blame for their own…

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Idyllwild News

Dr. Browning’s lesson for all
ByJack Clark June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Distraction can be deadly Dr. Kenneth Browning, physician-proprietor of Fern Creek Medical Center, spoke with the Town Crier recently to give the details behind his bizarre auto crash at our local transfer station on Monday morning, May 29. He hopes everyone can learn from it. Browning related that he had just backed his car up…

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Columns | Out Loud

Out Loud: In Memory of James Larkin …
By June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editor’s note: Staff Reporter Marshall Smith writes on his personal relationship with former TC staffer James Larkin, who died last week at the young age of 39. Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief? William Blake, Songs of Innocence Family….

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Opinion

Winter is Coming
ByIdyllwild Town Crier June 7, 2017June 8, 2017 Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Marsha Kennedy Idyllwild Snow Group A couple months ago, the Snow Group conducted a straw poll among about a third of Idyllwild businesses regarding the effects of snow-play visitors. Almost 90 percent of those we spoke with said their experiences were negative, that this particular kind of tourist creates challenges while contributing little or…

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