Past Tense: November 6, 2014
65 years ago - 1949
The Town Crier was starting its fourth year publishing a newspaper on the Hill.
60 years ago - 1954
An open meeting...
Past Tense: December 24, 2020
70 years ago - 1950Two men, Mike Dunn and Bill Bratton, set a record for the hike from Idyllwild to Palm Springs,...
Past Tense: November 7, 2019
Pat Boss, Steve Stephenson, Sharon Vogelaar, Suzy (Shinn) Hoffman with Ernie Maxwell planting redwoods in front of Idyllwild Elementary in 1953....
Past Tense: October 30, 2014
65 years ago - 1949
Directors of the Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce voted to “reforest” the San Jacinto Mountains with Sequoia Giganteas.
60 years ago -...
Past Tense: Feb. 13, 2014
65 years ago - 1949: There were 30 to 40 inches of snow on the ground in town ...
Past Tense: May 9, 2019
This sign once stood where some of the Fern Valley water tanks are now. file photo
Past Tense: June 16, 2022
70 years ago - 1952MGM was filming “Desperate Search” around Lake Hemet, starring Jane Greer, Howard Keel and Keenan Wynn. The company...
Past Tense: May 23, 2019
Kay Hosking Atkinson of Hemet was at Cedar Tree Gallery on Dec. 10, 1977, autographing copies of her newly published book...
Past Tense: September 5, 2019
The fifth and sixth-grade girls took first place in Mrs. Joyce Hatfield’s social studies class project involving the construction of a...
Past Tense – 6-24.2022
75 years ago - 1947
Fred Patton revealed he was smuggled into this area. “Back in 1895,” he recalled,...