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During last weekend’s Lemon Lily Festival, a lemon lily bloomed along Strawberry Creek. Photo: Catherine Allen







Editor’s note: This feature ran in the Town Crier on Nov. 4, 1976. Gladys Humphreys died in January 1979 at age 83. “We used to have a view of Lily Rock and Marion Mountain, but the trees grew faster than this house,” laughed Gladys Humphreys, cozy in the modest home that she and her late…
NEW MEMBER: Soroptimist International of Idyllwild President Karen Doshier (right) inducted Suzanne Avalon at the Wednesday, Feb. 4 meeting. Photo by Theresa Teel
The Marine Band is an 18-piece jazz ensemble led by Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Bley …
Ken Dahleen, founder and impresario of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, has done it again — created a summer lineup with something for everyone. For 16 years, Dahleen and his board have provided a Thursday-night summer series of music under the stars — free. He contracts the acts and begins each summer with insufficient money…
Fine artists and crafts-people interested in showing and selling their work at the 11th Annual Indian Wells Arts Festival — “where Art is a Happening!” — are invited to apply online. A total 200 artists will be accepted. Primary jury deadline is Oct. 13. Sixty spaces are held for the secondary jury’s Jan. 5, 2013…