By Marsha Kennedy Idyllwild Snow Group With fans and air-conditioners humming, it’s difficult to wrap our heads around snow. However, the Snow Group plows on, so to speak, working to reduce the impact of snow-play visitors on our residential areas and on our village that has no infrastructure to accommodate them. Representatives of the Snow…
Editor: Congratulations to PCWD incumbents! Superb water quality, diversified and outstanding water production, reliable facilities, stable budgets, awesome audits, highly qualified employees, and transparent operations are the product of the current PCWD board’s hard work, and dedication! Re-elect the incumbents! Paid for by PCWD customers
70 years ago – 1947 Idyllwild School faced a crisis. There wasn’t enough room to accommodate the anticipated enrollment of 125 kids. • • • “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” starring Tyronne Power, Don Ameche and Alice Faye, was luring customers to the Rustic Theatre. 65 years ago – 1952 More than 100 people from Monogram Studios…
This episode of “Days of Our Nine Lives” is dedicated to profiling the cast of characters. Pepper: Pepper, one of four tuxedo cats in the ARF cattery, has learned to love humans, but she lets them know that she will come to them; they just need to be patient. Pepper is 5 years old and…
Editor: Now that we have all expressed our various opinions about a laser light show on Tahquitz Rock, done in the memory of a deceased wife, and lasted only an hour, we now have something of much greater importance upon which to focus our attention. At the present time, a third marijuana store is scheduled…
Editor: Our town businesses are suffering; now having an every-weekend, arts-and-crafts show/farmer’s market. I’ve lived here for 38 years. My store was established 24 years ago. Just as things start to improve economically for town businesses, we have 30-plus vendors every weekend. My business was built with blood, sweat and tears. I’m waiting for the…
Editor: It’s a no-brainer. If you don’t go digital it’s just a matter of time before you go out of business. Is there any environmentalist in Idyllwild? Why would you want to waste all that paper? The people who want to hold the paper look at it then throw it in the trash. God knows…
Editor: I was shocked to earn of Idyllwild Water District’s “solution” to the $3,500 water bill. Splitting it is like sentencing an innocent person to half a sentence when she/he deserves no sentence at all. Why not total up every water bill these customers have had and divide the total by the number of months…
Each week, certain subjects are the talk of the town — sometimes the conversations go on for more than a week or even continue for months, such as the sudden appearance of a California black bear who has livened up the mountains with surprise appearances here and there. First we witnessed and suffered through snow-play…
This episode of “Days of Our Nine Lives” will be dedicated to profiling the cast of characters. Carli: Carli is a very shy, unobtrusive girl who is 6 years old. She prefers to have her own nook where she may curl up and observe the rest of the world, but she is happy to have…
