Editor: My wife and I are contributing members of the Nature Center. We enjoy strolling through the museum with our dog Jake, who is always very interested in the various scents from the reptiles, animals and furs. We enjoyed that friendly cat, Sunny, usually sitting regally on a chair near the cash register. Jake and…
Property assessments for 2015 in the Idyllwild area are 3.3 percent greater than last year, according to Riverside County Assessor’s Office. The $765.6 million valuation is the greatest ever recorded for Idyllwild. Last week, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder Peter Aldana announced that property values for the whole county were assessed at $242.7 billion, a 5.8-percent increase from…
Editor: You have done a magnificent job for the past two years. The paper that I have been reading since 1956 is wonderful and every week I look forward to its arrival. I know that Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell are very proud of all of you. This is the best paper that I know as…
I do not know if it is just me since I am a candidate running for one of the seats on the Idyllwild Water District Board, or do they treat all their customers the same way? They have made it very difficult for me to review the water district documents under the California Public Records…
Speak with state experts, engineers and other districts as I have done. Rain’s pure as snowmelt, percolating into groundwater. UCLA graduate, honors in science, teacher, resident 13 years. I passionately care about Pine Cove’s water supply. Please vote. Sharon Kaffen Pine Cove Political letters during election season are paid at 10 cents per…
Editor: What? She is being evicted, not retiring. Wrong headline. The county is trying to evict her. Sunny is still at the Nature Center, not at ARF, and the committee to save Sunny collected 75 signatures July 7 being forwarded to Supv. Washington. Keith Herron at the county has made this decision based on one…
Editor: While at the dump, I stood on a ridge behind the dumpsters and wondered at the puff of smoke that caught my eye. As the smoke grew denser, so did the flames, now leaping and spreading rapidly. I could clearly see the source of the flames as they slowly widened and lengthened as the…
The Town Crier Fireball team was up to bat against Jo’An’s Eagles Wednesday, July 8, during Town Hall Minor League Baseball at Idyllwild School. Photo by Jenny Kirchner
Three of us who braved last Thursday’s summer concert huddled through the entire event, watching chairs fold up and people leaving in swarms as the sun rolled away and temperatures dropped. Children — who carry that warm, brown fat — never seemed to notice. They ran, whirled through the playground and ate ice cream, including…
Idyllwild Water District residents will have a choice of five candidates for the three director seats up for election in the August mail-in ballot election. Running for re-election are Board President Jim Billman and directors Warren Monroe and Dean Lattin, who is in his first election. The two challengers are Steven Kunkle and June Rockwell….
