Opinion: Grateful for coverage
I just wanted to say I appreciate all the hard work and long hours you put in covering the fire. The Town Crier had the best and most detailed coverage. Scott Fisher Pine Cove/Palm Desert
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Hub Cyclery’s first Bike Rodeo
Hub Cyclery’s first Bike Rodeo was held at the Idyllwild Community Center site Sunday morning.
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Elsie Fisher at the Rustic
as part of a fundraiser for Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company 621 last Thursday night.
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Opinion: Outstanding coverage
I commend you for your outstanding coverage of the Mountain Fire and the pictures your fearless photographer took of the event. You truly served the members of the community. Paula DeBlanc Idyllwild/Escondido
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Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center escapes fire, but not mudslide
While many people worried that the Mountain Fire would burn the Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center in Apple Canyon, neither flames nor heat damaged the Center rather water and mud were the culprits …
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Incumbent Charles-Stigall running for seat
The mail-in ballots for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission election should begin arriving in Idyllwild mail boxes this week. Four candidates — Commission President Jeannine Charles-Stigall, Rhonda Andrewson, Steve Kunkle and Nancy Layton — are vying for three commission seats. The Town Crier has interviewed each candidate and will sponsor a Candidate’s Forum 7…
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Opinion: Mountain Fire updates
I have a brother living full-time and parents who are part-time Idyllwild residents. The San Jacinto Wilderness also is special to me for many years of backpacking in my youth and our marriage proposal 25 years ago. Our Temecula home has a wonderful view of the vineyards with the mountain beyond. Your “Breaking News” announcements…
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Opinion: Commissioners ignored voters
In response to your reader’s question who jokingly asked if Pete Capperelli dated my wife, Pete’s a great guy. I think he also was a pretty good real estate agent. But the people of Idyllwild, in the last general election, voted him out of office. All the fire commissioners who ran for re-election were rejected. The…
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Opinion: Evacuated businesses praised
I am writing to express appreciation to those business owners who followed the evacuation orders to leave Idyllwild like the rest of us. They clearly saw that our common good outweighed any personal gain that could have been made by staying. They did not see themselves as exempt from the rules, and by leaving when…
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Incident management team comes and goes
The Incident Management Team and fire officials from the San Bernardino National Forest and its San Jacinto Ranger District met Wednesday afternoon, July 24, to arrange the return of authority to the forest the next morning. The IMT was requested on the first day of the Mountain Fire, July 15. When the team handed the…
