The Idyllwild Water District lost two of its five directors in September. Former President James Billman and Director Mike Freitas resigned unexpectedly within the same week. The remaining directors have not been able to appoint replacements because Vice President John Cook prefers to wait and hold an election in March 2017. Regardless of the victors,…
MCFSC PLANS COMMUNITY MEETING . . . As we start the last month of the year, the landscape around us is going through its annual change that takes place during this time. Leaves have changed color and quickly taken their place on the ground. The telltale smell of wood stoves in the early morning and…
Editor: In our house, Nov. 25 is called Markmas because it is exactly a month before Christmas, and my husband, Mark’s, birthday. He loves holidays and adding another is a tradition that our family and friends gladly celebrate. So what should we call Nov. 25 now that the day has been tainted by the death…
Editor: Noting letter “America still has a pulse” from Mark Dean in Nov 24, 2016, Town Crier where he says “Middle Americans have been getting shafted by the Left for the last eight years … ” Really? Would this be the Affordable Care Act that now covers more than 20 million Americans who had no…
I checked on my vote on Nov. 24, 2016, and was left with a couple of questions. I wrote the following to the elections department of Riverside County: “I visited your web site to check on my vote and found that it states it was received and is good. Good for what? How can I…
Editor: The people vote in different ways: with their feet, their money or their ballots. Prior to election day, 2016, the American people kept their mouths shut about how they would vote. Both parties held their nominating conventions in mid- to late- July and the Dow Jones Industrial Average began a slow descent until election…
Editor: My heart and prayers go out to Judy Lawler (TC Nov. 17) and all the women out there who are battling breast cancer. I fought my battle this past June. Though in my late 60s, I find myself fortunate to be the most healthy I’ve ever been. Still, I developed a cancerous breast tumor…
Here’s urging Supv. Chuck Washington to bring two names before his fellow supervisors soon — two appointees to fill the vacancies on the Idyllwild Water District board. This agency has much business to conduct but current leadership places it in a stalemate. With a five-member board, there’s no way one man can block the others’…
Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Riverside County) has announced the availability of applications for the 2017-18 California Senate Fellows program. The program provides college graduates an opportunity to become full-time Senate staff members at the state Capitol in Sacramento for 11 months beginning in October 2017. Fellows are assigned to the personal or committee staff of a…
An Idyllwild man has pleaded guilty to inflicting corporal injury with a prior conviction within seven years. The charge is enhanced because the crime was committed while Shawn Gooch, 37, was technically on bail for a previous identical charge. Judge Mark Mandio will sentence Gooch on Jan. 20. He is expected to enroll and successfully…
