Editor: My wife and I have spent several Thanksgivings in Idyllwild the past 10 years and have enjoyed the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony. Two years ago, an LA weatherman was the guest emcee and I smelled trouble. We didn’t come last year, but did this year and were disappointed to find roughly 1,500 people there,…
Editor: OK, so there’s a committee that is drafting new laws for us, stricter fire abatement rules and charges. The Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council and its president has gone out of their way recently in the paper to say it’s not us, it’s them. It’s that new committee that’s pushing this, don’t blame us….
Editor: Regarding Dr. Platter’s laughable defense of the HUSD salary structure (Nov. 27), I don’t imagine she is dim so I can only marvel at her cynicism. She is well aware that no decent teacher spends only the “contract hours” in the classroom. She and the members of the board know quite well the chaos…
Editor: We asked the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council Board of Directors some questions about the radical new fire-abatement laws being worked on at their last meeting. We are hoping for answers. Have you done a cost assessment? Have you analyzed the project to determine its total cost to this community? A large expense will…
Editor: The Kool-Aid® consumed by IFPD personnel, its board, and the voter base of this community is sad. Recently, the 2014-15 grand jury held IFPD in violation of the Penal Code with a deadline to comply. IFPD’s response was not to comply by the deadline. The board president told the community he personally contacted the…
Editor: It appears that HUSD lacks an understanding of the real mission of their schools. Since mid-October, I have been requesting copies of “Into The Wild” for my senior-level course. Finally, on Nov. 20, I received word that “the books had been shipped, but were ‘unable to be delivered’ and had been returned, refund issued.”…
Editor: The most important thing to consider regarding a change in the volume of motorcycle accidents, or any other type of highway motor vehicle accident, is traffic volume, which in this case would include both motorcycles and other types of motor vehicles. Probably the next most important factor to consider is the type of highway,…
Editor and Mr. Paulek: I read with great interest your article in the Idyllwild Town Crier dated Oct. 2, 2014. I also read California AB 711. As a young boy I ate pheasants and ducks killed with lead shot all through World War II and into the 1950s. Therefore, I must have ingested a fair…
Editor: I have never taken the time to read these articles (Off the leash) until tonight. What is this all about? Why do we have a left-wing loon writing articles in the newspaper? Don’t we get enough of this in the mainstream media? Does he get to do this just because of who he is?…
Editor: Last week’s TC had a letter from Shari Fae giving an extremely misleading view of what’s happening with revising the Hill’s fire abatement codes. Scott Fisher’s letter raises some reasonable questions. I want to answer both with the following points, of which they seem to be unaware: 1) Chief Hawkins created the committee out…
