I didn’t get any farther than the wood shed all weekend and spent much of it in my pajamas. Being certain that a power outage loomed, I started the wood stove Thursday night and kept it going until Tuesday morning. Thursday, I stopped at the pharmacy and the hardware store for provisions in case of…
Has the time come for local residents to put up locked fences on their property to keep people from destroying it? On Sunday while Jack was unloading trash at the Transfer Station, I watched three deer grazing up on the grassy hillside, not bothered by vehicles coming and going but quite aware of us. We…
I wrote this almost 10 years ago and it still applies: The advantages of snail mail are becoming apparent in the new age of technology. Don’t get me wrong, I love e-mail for several reasons. Columns and letters to the editor don’t have to be retyped. And there is an ease and speed of communicating…
With this week’s issue, the Idyllwild Town Crier has more than doubled its circulation from about 2,400 to more than 5,400 by going to full Hill distribution. Everyone with a U.S. Postal Service box in Idyllwild, Mountain Center and Garner Valley will find a free issue of the TC in their mail each week. Many…
Jack, my son Zac and I drove out to my daughter’s in Thomas Mountain Village Christmas morning. The halycon blue sky, snowy mountains, bucolic pastures and fairly clear highways created an idyllic scene for a drive in the country. Traffic was light, contradicting a deluge of snow visitors making their way toward the mountains. We…
Editor’s note: Co-publisher Jack Clark writes this week: Pretty heady stuff, this change coming to the Town Crier on Jan. 5, and the paper’s staff is ready and eager for it. “Full market coverage” is the term in the trade; “free to the Hill” is what it means here. TC newspapers free each week to…
Editor’s note: Co-publisher Jack Clark writes this week: For the record: Sirkin’s ‘15,000 people’ response Lately, there has been a bit of a dispute — in our “Readers Write” (letters to the editor) column — as to a certain “15,000 people” response given by Victor Sirkin at the Idyllwild Water District forum for directorship candidates…
Jack and I flew to Oakland last Thursday morning to pick up the BART to ride into San Francisco. The California Press Foundation’s 139th Winter Meeting takes place annually the first week of December at the Marines’ Memorial Club. Thursday night, we attended an awards ceremony there and listened to speaker David Talbot, author of…
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’…
Editor’s note: Co-publisher Jack Clark is writing “Out Loud” this week: For the Nov. 16 Idyllwild Water District meeting, Acting Board President John Cook hired an armed, uniformed sheriff’s deputy at a cost of $300 because of disturbances at the Sept. 22 meeting caused by one member of the public and “a reporter,” he said….
