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With the changing of ownership of the Christmas tree property — now Idypark — to Dave and Loie Butterfield, and the resignation of Phyllis Mueller from organizing the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, this year’s event also brings changes. Chris Perrault, owner of Silver Pines Lodge and Creekstone Inn, is organizing the event this year…
Robert Ferguson is a contemporary impressionist painter in the mode of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne. He is opening a studio in Pinyon Pines that backs onto national forest land with an unobstructed view of the mountains and a light-enriched environment. Ferguson’s paintings are rich with color, as were those of the old…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild held their first event of the new year on Saturday January 17 at Town Hall. Ther was a show of member work, with prizes in several categories, snacks and beverages, and music by Monica Sierras with her uke. Jolene Paige, Alliance board member explained that these art works were the…...
Long-time Idyllwild resident Teri Hardy also went to high school here, at the Desert Sun School, class of ’63. AstroCamp now occupies the site in Saunders Meadow. She remembers that students at the boarding school were close. Graduating classes numbered in the 20s. Among the school’s graduates is Frank Sinatra Jr., class of ’61. Sinatra,…
Award-winning author Samantha Dunn (right) was this week’s speaker at Eduardo Santiago’s (left) Idyllwild Author Series Sunday afternoon …
Creative art boxes are on display through Jan. 3 at Honey Bunns & Joe Bakery …