Editor: It’s absurd and fear- mongering to say, as was stated, new fire-abatement laws could have prevented the last fire. I’m sick and tired of false and misleading statements. That’s as outrageous a statement as saying our firefighters helped cause the last big fire by not following existing abatement law. The cause was electrical sparks…
Editor: Canceled again? I tried to attend the fire abatement meeting last week at 1 p.m. and it was canceled. Since October I’ve been trying to find out what in the world they are doing? They announced big plans and big changes to existing fire-abatement laws more than three months ago. I see a lot…
65 years ago – 1950 Plans for the new Community Church were being drawn up. 60 years ago – 1955 The Rustic Theatre was playing “Cattle Queen of Montana,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. 55 years ago – 1960 Temperatures in Idyllwild hit a five-year low; Idyllwild Dairy reported a reading of…
Juliet, you smiled at just the right time, and wiggled and wagged your puppy self right into the best-forever family. Paws up to you. Enjoy the best life ever. ARF has several dogs available for adoption on our website under assisted adoption. Check our Facebook page as well for dogs needing homes. Poppy is a…
Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff and Capt. Ray Wood regard the rural Hill communities as important within the large territory they manage. By large, I mean it is the fourth most populous county in the state and geographically the size of New Jersey. Sniff told me his entire force is 10 times the size of…
Q. Do you wear a cummerbund with the pleats facing up or down? -Woodrow, Aguanga A. No, I don’t. But if you are going to wear one, wear it with the pleats facing up. That way they’ll catch all the cookie and cracker crumbs that would otherwise fall on the floor, which would be…
Dr Know It All can answer any question. He just happens to know everything. Dr Know It All selects a few questions each month. Readers may send the Doctor a question at the Town Crier (becky@towncrier.com). Dear Dr Know It All: The dogs in my neighborhood drive me crazy with their incessant barking. What can…
Most of the time, when a reporter goes to cover a feature story, they’ve done some background research and carry along some questions to ask of the subject(s) of the interview. Because I was tasked with babysitting three grandchildren over a four-day period, when I headed for the Rustic on Saturday, I carried only an…
Greetings from the James Reserve. In continuing at our peeks into the natural world, this installment will be on another species of mammal found in the James and Idyllwild area, the coyote. I refer to them as song dogs in the title because we not only often see coyotes around our woodland homes but we…
By Rick Barker Idyllwild Editor’s note: With permission from Rick, this is a letter he addressed to Bryan Asch regarding Bryan’s recent series on mental health in the Town Crier. Bryan: Suffering raises awareness, especially self-awareness. I was introduced to this concept decades ago by Dostoyevsky: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a…
