70 years ago – 1948 Fern Valley residents were about to vote on a $250,000 bond issue to purchase the Fern Valley Mutual Water System. 65 years ago – 1953 A team of forestry insect experts from the U.S. Bureau of Entomology toured the district and reported that the local national forest area was in…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” ARF cats touted their adoptable traits. Little Girl: Dogs, dogs, dogs. Pepper: What’s the dog news this week? Little Girl: ARF now has five of ’em! Taz: Are you talking about me, the adorable min-pin? Mr. Gray: You, and four other dogs. So, there is Taz, our…
70 years ago – 1948 Fire quickly burned more than an acre on the mountainside below Suicide Rock. The snow was too deep to allow pumpers to get close to the fire. 65 years ago – 1953 ISOMATA was growing fast. Enrollment was expected to reach 500 students and the 40 faculty members would equal…
By Marsha Kennedy Idyllwild Snow Group The effectiveness of new county road signs and the Idyllwild Snow Group’s Facebook campaign was given a test two weekends ago, as Idyllwild received a large influx of people who came up expecting snow. Here’s a sampling of reports from residents: “I was shocked to see so many snow-play…
By Brian J. Hunhoff Editor’s note: In honor of Sunshine Week, we are running this year’s opinion piece from Brian J. Hunhoff on the subject, as we did last year. “Captain Jack” Crawford was one of the original Black Hills Rangers. He survived many Old West adventures and was called “The Poet Scout.” This is…
Editor: In the 1990s, public-school educators did not think or need to say, “We are not warriors, we are teachers.” No one talked about how to “shelter in place” in the classroom, inside door locks were non-existent, shooting drill practices never occurred and training in “critical incident debriefing” wasn’t necessary. During that time, as a…
Editor: I was hanging out in the gnome shop at The Fort in Idyllwild Sunday morning and it came to me why the president is meeting with the North Korean dictator. It’s obvious, once you think about it. Mr. Trump stated a while back that he wants to have a grand parade in DC to…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” ARF cats visited with the ARF canines. Little Girl: Some good news. Al found his forever home. So now we have Taz and Winter. Pepper: Good news, so let’s focus on the felines today, OK? Little Girl: Great idea. The new kittens are so very adorable, and…
70 years ago – 1948 The proprietor of Thorn’s General Store, Pine Cove, advertised, “I’ll sell you stuff if you’ll hunt me up. It’s too cold to be at the store every day.” 65 years ago – 1953 Ernie Maxwell was a member of the snow crew team that trekked Tahquitz Valley to complete the…
Editor: This headline shows needless and unacceptable partisanship for the front page when it mentions President Trump’s name. Many others were involved in developing the changes. (Yes, I know the “buck” stops in the Oval Office.) It is an unfortunate example of the news media’s biased handling of news regarding Mr. Trump, now the president….
