Opinion: Affordable Care Act helps IFPD
It’s time to terminate the IFPD and CSA 38 special assessments.
Congress passed, the President signed and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that each resident of the country, legal or not, must have health insurance. Wow!
It pays 100 percent of our paramedic and ambulance service — when up to this point only 36 percent of the users paid their...
Lisa and Kats ready to scorch summer series
Lisa Haley and her Zydekats, one of the most popular bands to play in Idyllwild, return to the Summer Concert Series on Thursday, July 19.
Like an approaching summer storm front, with intimations of heat lightning and heavy humidity, Haley and her Kats arrive with thunder and the promise of combustion. The storm arrives, settles in, the air is cleansed,...
Dr. Dick Goldberg honored for a lifetime of service
Local resident Dr. Richard Goldberg received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine at a ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The ceremony, held Sunday, July 1, recognized Goldberg’s more than 40 years serving L.A. County USC Hospital. He was one of its first emergency medicine residents....
Opinion: Re: Idyllwild Pines Camp
Idyllwild Pines Camp is a business because it’s one of the few camps that operates with no funding from any outside help. They are here for the people that want what they have to offer.
When those people come to the camp, they come here for the chance to learn more and to leave the world they live in. They...
Opinion: Re: Leash law — 3
I am writing in response to the person who wrote the letter in last week’s Town Crier complaining about the leash law.
The key word is “law.” The law isn’t arbitrary, ambiguous or open to interpretation. You can’t choose which laws you will obey and which ones you won’t.
Do you choose to stop at a red light, or do...
Opinion: Keep your thoughts private
OK, Idyllwild, here’s a modest proposal for the “elephant in the room” on the Hill.
Are we really going to continue this path of self-indulgent public sniping without substantiation (i.e. libel) or any sincere attempt to personally resolve perceived problems, call it free speech (an insult to the concept) as an excuse for a lack of courage to face one...
Town Hall adult softball begins
Idyllwild Professional Cleaning went up against Forest Lumber on Wednesday night at Idyllwild School during the first game of the season for Town Hall adult coed softball.
Opinion: Credit card theft
We had a great couple of days during the Fourth on Daffodil Hill. The “non-fireworks” were better than those in San Diego.
Big surprise this evening when my credit card called and advised me of probable fraudulent charges against my credit card.
The caller knew the charges that originated in Michigan were not in accord with my spending patterns and details...
Initial Thoughts: A busy Independence week …
What a wonderful parade. Again the Rotary did a fantastic job producing a traditional Idyllwild event.
And special thanks to the participation of UCR’s Pipe Band. They were ubitquitous last week. Thanks, Allan.
Also a special acknowledgment to Dawn Sonnier for all of her work to build another playground in the community. She is the second recipient of the Ernie Maxwell...