60 years ago – 1957 Pine Dell Estates was a new development in town, just below the village on National Forest Highway [aka Highway 243]. 55 years ago – 1962 It had been 75 days since the last measurable moisture. High temperature for the week was a sizzling 96 degrees. • • • With the…
Editor: Idyllwild Fire and Idyllwild Water are sub-standard agencies that refuse to fix their problems not because they fail to identify them, but rather they don’t see the importance of doing so. The arrogance is appalling, dangerous and reason enough for dissolution. IFPD won’t be the lead agency saving your home during a wildfire nor…
Editor: My wife and I bought our cabin in Pine Cove in 2012. The cabin was a bank repo and required a lot of work. I wanted to use local “Hill” businesses but sources of information were hard to come by and not always reliable. The Town Crier was the exception and became my primary…
Editor: After many years of vacationing on the Hill, I have always wondered what reference point is used for determining the elevation of our Hill communities: Pine Cove, 6,200 feet; Idyllwild, 5,303 feet; Mountain Center, 4,444 feet. Michael Blurton Pine Cove
Just a note: I worked diligently last week to get all people up or back up who were both members and subscribers. Subscribers from the old system who had time left on their subscriptions should be back up. Unless you want to be only online, locals should be getting their papers mailed to them this…
Today I stood at the foot of the driveway and looked at my home. I admired it, turned my head a bit and admired it some more. Dang funny thing, this love for an 800-square-foot slightly listing house. Bad enough I am crazy in love with my dogs but my house, too? Is there a…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the Kapital Kittens were introduced. Little Girl: I love this office cat job because I just love sharing good news. Bodie: That must be fun. Do you have some to share? Little Girl: I do! Four of the Kapital Kittens have found forever homes, so that leaves…
“… I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started… This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I’ve seen you in every corner of the country… You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good…
Editor: The only madness that appears in this movie title, “Refer Madness,” 1936, is the promotion of such a ludicrous claim. Drugs having 10 times the strength and voracity go unchallenged: cocaine, alcohol, heroin and the numerous legal pharmaceuticals on the market that are opium-based, despite their addictive nature and destructive potential on the human…
As you’ve seen in the last few Town Crier issues, changes are coming to the Town Crier with the issue of Sept. 7, 2017. First, the paper will be located in only in a few locations for $1 each. (See our column below.) Distribution, therefore, will drop from about 5,500 to 3,800, still much more…
