

Klingamen finishes fifth in Sun Valley mountain bike race
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Idyllwild’s Emma Klingaman traveled to Sun Valley, Idaho to participate in the National Mountain Bike Championships. On July 14, she finished fifth in the women’s 15-18 Category 2 cross-country race (a 15.25 kilometer course) and earned her medal. This week, she is now tied number one in USA Cycling’s rankings for California mountain bikers. Photo courtesy of Michael Morton

By David JeromeCorrespondent Often these pages carry portraits of locals old and new. This week we present a conversation with a pair of “part-timers,” at least for the present. Michael Steele and his wife Cynthia, normally residents of Florida, have spent the last few weeks in Idyllwild recovering from this summer’s Baja 500, and preparing…
Brendan Steele moved up the leaderboard from last week, tying for 30th at the Wells Fargo Championship on the Quail Hollow course in Charlotte, North Carolina. The native Idyllwilder carded a 3-under-par 72-72-69-72 — 285 to earn 38 FedExCup points. Steele now stands 67th on the FedExCup list with 446 points with about four months…
Brendan Steele posted a 4-over-par 71-73 — 144 at the PGA Championship at the Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey last week. From his stats, it appears that driving accuracy was a bit of a problem (he hit 13 of 29 fairways), he lost most of a stroke to the field with approach irons, and…
I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in this week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player not only needed to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…
By Will SteichenRecreation & Program DirectorIdyllwild Community Center Co-ed Volleyball heads into the season’s final week. Team Village Hardware has made a big comeback, winning four out of the last four games making it a toss-up of where teams will be seeded for the playoffs.Games take place each Monday, Tuesday and Friday at Buckhorn Camp…
Brendan Steele put together rounds of 70-73-77-72 for a 4-over-par — 292 at the Bay Hill Club course in Orlando, Florida, last week to finish in a respectable tie for 26th place in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.On a tough course, the Idyllwild native averaged drives of 308 yards into 55% of the fairways while hitting…