Idyllwild Town Crier

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Idyllwild Town Crier
"Almost All the News – Part of the Time"
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Front page of the edition of November 12, 2009
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Becky and Jack Clark, through IHP Co. Ltd.
Founder(s)Ernie and Betty Maxwell
PublisherIdyllwild House Publishing Co. Ltd.
Editor-in-chiefMelissa Diaz Hernandez
EditorMelissa Diaz Hernandez
Photo editorJeff Clark
Staff writers3
FoundedNovember 1, 1946;76 years ago (1946-11-01)
Language English
Headquarters54391 Village Center Dr, Ste. 5, Idyllwild, CA 92549
CountryUnited States
Circulation ~2100
OCLC number 27263446
Website idyllwildtowncrier.com
Free online archives Idyllwild Town Crier (News Library)

The Idyllwild Town Crier is a local weekly newspaper published out of Idyllwild, California. The Town Crier serves the area of the San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside County, California. The current owner-operators are Becky Clark and Jack Clark. [1] [2] The paper was founded in 1946 by husband and wife Ernie and Betty Maxwell, and was originally published from the Maxwell's house during its first few years.

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History

The newspaper published its first issue as The Town Crier on Friday, November 1, 1946. [3] The paper was founded by married couple Ernie and Betty Maxwell, a visual artist and a former Broadway dancer, who moved to the town in 1944 during a post-war boom in logging and tourism. The paper was published from their house until at least 1949. [4] [5] Ernie Maxwell continued as editor/publisher until 1957, when he hired an editor and renamed it to the Idyllwild Town Crier, [6] though from 1969 to 1971 the paper used its original name. [7] In 1972, Maxwell sold the paper to Luther and Marilyn Weare. [5] Ernie Maxwell died in 1994. [8]

May 1978, the Weares sold the Town Crier to L.B. and Dorothy Hunsaker [9] . In May 1989, the Hunsakers sold the paper to Chronicle Publishing Company (publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle ). [5] The Idyllwild Town Crier changed corporate hands in 1994 when it sold to England-based Tindle Newspaper Group. [5] [10] The paper returned to private ownership in June 2013, when Becky & Jack Clark bought the paper through their newly formed Idyllwild House Publishing Co. Ltd. Becky is the longest ever employee of the Idyllwild Town Crier, including serving as editor/publisher during some of the Tindle years. [2] [5]

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References

  1. "Contact us". Idyllwild Town Crier. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Library of Congress. "About Idyllwild town crier. (Idyllwild, Calif.) 1971-current". Chronicling America . Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  3. Library of Congress. "About Town crier. ([Idyllwild, Calif.]) 1946–1957". Chronicling America . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  4. Smith, Robert B. (2009). Idyllwild and the high San Jacintos. San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Pub. pp. 111, 115. ISBN   978-0-7385-5985-8 . Retrieved May 16, 2017.
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  7. Library of Congress. "About Town crier. (Idyllwild, Calif.) 1969–1971". Chronicling America . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
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