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Following the announcement of the headliners for the August Jazz in the Pines Festival, John Newman has nearly completed the full two-day schedule. Many familiar and popular artists will perform in all three venues the weekend of Aug.15 and 16. On Saturday, jazz seekers again will be treated to the tones from the Euphoria Brass…
Idyllwild resident Robert Ferguson, author of “The Knights Templar and Scotland,” will give a talk from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the Idyllwild Library. He will describe how the Knights Templar became not only the world’s most feared warriors but also the first international bankers, the first multinational conglomerate and the only…
Nicole Picchiottino returns to her K-6 alma mater Nicole (Hoffman) Picchiottino, along with other first- and second-grade students at Idyllwild School, used to slide her lunchbox down the long hall from the cafeteria to the kindergarten classroom to see whose could go farther. “I’m sure I won occasionally,” said Picchiottino. “I’m very competitive.” The game…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild awarded nearly $9,000 in scholarships and grants to local women and girls in the last 12 months. Club members and awardees celebrated their success at a dinner hosted by Ferro on Thursday, April 25. The club received four applications for the annual Live Your Dream Award and all four were awarded…
Temple Har Shalom is sponsoring “Embracing Wisdom: Soaring the Second Half of Life” in mid-May, a retreat that promises to reveal the hidden gifts of aging and give tools to harvest them, according to Rabbi Malka Drucker. “While every generation and individual confronts the challenges of aging, those in the second half of life today…
Art aficionados and friends of Carol Mills attended the evening opening of her retrospective artwork at the Courtyard Gallery on July 20. Dr. Evan Mills, Carol’s son, spent many months consolidating his mother’s lifetime of art through purposeful and thorough displays of 75 pieces of her many art forms which appear in a beautifully done…