Dear editor:My heart sank when I saw the front page of the TC, stating that the planning director of Riverside County has approved the construction of a three-story hotel in the middle of town.In a previous article (8-26-21) about said project, Brad Rechtfertig mentioned that there are many three-story homes in the area, but I…
Dear editor:You have shown in your previous edition photos of overuse of garbage cans and the caption was “ . . . whether Idyllwild has the infrastructure to handle large numbers of visitors.”This does not come close to describing the situation in Idyllwild during snow days. There are so many cars and pickups coming up…
Dear editor:Happy New Year. I hope all of our community members enjoyed the beautiful and much needed rain and snow as much as I did. It was clean, natural, steady and stayed at higher elevations, just as Mother Nature intended.If the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) has its way, our future storms may not…
Fight for women’s rights editor:First they came for the BibleAnd I let them take itBecause I thought they needed itThen they came for the ConstitutionAnd I rolled my eyesBecause I took its content for grantedThen they came for the flagAnd I abhorred what it symbolizedBecause they wrapped themselves in itThen they came for the democratic…
Short-term rentals Dear editor:I would like to chime in on the current debate over STRs (Short Term Rentals). As other Town Crier readers have mentioned, the county of Riverside is currently proposing upgrades to the existing ordinance 927, which regulates them. The upgraded ordinance can be viewed here: https://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/14/Ord_No_927DraftforPublication_1.pdfThe planner handling it is asking for…
Response to Gisela Stearns’ letter Dear editor:I thank Ms. Stearns for exercising her American right to speak her opinion and I thank the Idyllwild Town Crier for serving as a platform for such discourse. I am writing to respectfully disagree with Ms. Stearns’ July 22 letter and provide scholarly background in hopes of lending her…
Everyone deserves to be heard Dear editor:Consensus is not science. Science doesn’t insist on everyone agreeing. Science relies on the scientific method in the pursuit and application of knowledge. Science is never finished.It looks to me that adherence to party has become more of a lock-step situation — for the left as well as the…
Dear editor:I’m Nervous! Very Nervous. We live in a fire prone area during the worst drought in years. Everything is dry. We are a tourist town with many off the Hill visitors clueless about how easy it is for a fire to start and in a matter of minutes consume half this mountain. We are…
Community not tribalism Dear editor:In the last five years, we have become a Nation belittled by tribalism caused by politics from both the left and right with thousands of intended misstatements — overt misrepresentation by all sides. We have entered the unparalleled crisis of our lifetime with the Covid-19. I read the basic economic indicators:…
The filibuster is racist and needs to go Dear editor:Year after year, we see politicians in Congress make promises about what they can do for constituents like me. And year after year, the progress is usually less than we hoped for.The solution is clear: It’s time to get rid of the filibuster — a Senate…
