Editor: I am writing to encourage dog owners to keep their dog on a leash on local hiking trails. I enjoy taking my dog hiking in the national forest (mainly May Valley Road.) She is a 50-pound Lab, former guide dog, and she listens to me when I call her. All the same, I keep…
Editor: When I read the TC’s op-ed by CNPA Executive Director Tom Newton [March 16 issue] titled “Enablers of the Enemy,” I chuckled. That’s because in writing this adolescent doggerel, Newton provided yet another clear example of why so much news is indeed fake. Newton began by mocking President Trump’s tweet (that called out ABC,…
The Idyllwild Rotary Anns recently made their annual contribution decisions. Each year this group of caring women work year-round to raise money to make contributions in support of Idyllwild-area nonprofits. This year, they have designated the following organizations to receive a grand total of $5,000: Friends of the Idyllwild Library, Idyllwild HELP Center, Idyllwild Scholarship…
Editor’s note: This is a press release from the U.S. Forest Service. The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) is inviting the public to help identify trails that will be part of an effort — with partners and volunteers — to increase the pace of trail maintenance. Nationwide, the Forest Service will select…
Fire crews were dispatched up Devil’s Slide Trail at about 2:50 p.m. Monday to extinguish a small vegetation fire. “The fire was located north of Devil’s Slide Trail in Humber Park,” said Gerrelaine Alcordo, assistant public affairs officer for the San Bernardino National Forest. A Cal Fire helicopter used Lake Fulmor as a water resource…
By Thomas R. Kluzak, M.D. Whipping up fear, to which we respond in a visceral often irrational way, is a favorite tactic of politicians, and they especially love to be able to do it with just a few words. Thus, “death tax” has turned the tide of the American public against the estate tax, fearing…
In January of this year, Kathy Sacher Wilson and Ginger Dagnall resigned from the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee. Now, Wendy Read has resigned in March. That leaves John Mertroka Jr. and Dave Hunt as the only two of the original five members sworn in in July of last year. While Wendy was attending…
Wendy Read, County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee member, resigned after some within the community lodged complaints that her service on the Idyllwild Community Center board as well as on the CSA Advisory Committee represented a conflict of interest. Read, a longtime Hill resident with extensive knowledge of community recreation needs, noted that Riverside County…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointed two new members to the County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee at its Tuesday, March 21 meeting — Mark Garrett and Ted Janka. Both are relatively new to the Hill and are profiled here so CSA 36 district residents can get to know them. Garrett is pastor of…
The County Service Area 36 Advisory Committee learned more about the pickleball courts, the Idyllwild Community Center board’s recreation contract with the county and street lights at last Thursday’s meeting. Also, two new members, Ten Janka and Mark Garrett (both are profiled separately in this edition), were seated. Washington’s new Chief of Staff Jeff Comerchero…
