This past week, a bear was seen in Garner Valley. The visitor spent time at the Tiso residence. “… hung out on our lawn at least three times over about four days. It ate our chickens, chewed our dogs bones and played with the dinosaur toys,” Alan Tiso wrote to the Town Crier. On Friday,…
The Advisory Committee for County Service Area 38 (Pine Cove) began to review the fiscal year 2017-18 budget and received status reports on several current year equipment purchases at last week’s meeting. The tentative budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, is anticipated to drop by more than 50 percent. The current-year…
New ordinance replaces 1957 version More than a year later, the revision of Pine Cove Water District’s original water policy ordinance has been completed and accepted. At the May 10 meeting, Ordinance 9, a new set of rules and regulations for setting water policies, was unanimously approved and replaces Ordinance 4, originally adopted March 16,…
Brown makes appointment to replace Benoit When it meets on May 23, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors will have five members. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed former Assemblyman V. Manny Perez, 44, as the county’s 4th District supervisor, who took the oath of office Friday, May 12. In the county’s press release, Perez…
Suffered spinal fractures from uncontrolled driver Monday evening, May 8, a fatal accident occurred in Valle Vista. The story was in the Town Crier’s May 11 edition. While driving from work, an Idyllwild resident, Craig Wills, 62, the California Highway Patrol identified him as Phillip, was hit by a Toyota Tundra. Wills saw the Toyota’s…
More and more, we in the newsroom at the TC have experienced an impediment to covering local students at Idyllwild School: parents or guardians. Last week, one of our freelance photographers went to Open House at the school and took lots of photos. He turned in four photos of the school concert without getting names….
We enjoy out trips to Idyllwild and usually spend a few days at the Idyllwild Inn during the summer months to escape the August and September heat down the Hill. We’ve subscribed to the Town Crier for a couple years or so and enjoy reading it every week. I don’t know much about the people…
To whoever is feeding the ravens in the vicinity of Double View, Middle Ridge and West Ridge, please leave a water bowl for them or stop feeding them your garbage. They are bringing it to my bird water bowl on Double View and leaving a gunky mess of soaking bread, chicken bones and other food…
In Conor O’Farrell’s column, he expresses his concern that he didn’t pay enough attention to the growing tension that slowly moved into our media outlets and that government is supposed to do the business of “the people” and not secure the fortunes of the rich and powerful. I have no idea what his point was….
A weird week, wasn’t it? Here is some food for thought. Off the wall, maybe out of touch. But, in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett, “If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.” • Since no individual can really afford to be sick, it follows that the relative pittance we contribute to insurance…
