Mountain Folk: Happy Birthday Marge Muir!
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Marge Muir, one of Idyllwild’s most iconic and esteemed residents, who has lived on the Hill for 53 years, and been involved as a volunteer in more boards and service organizations than most can remember, turns 80 years young on Sunday, Nov. 13. Happy Birthday Marge!
Erec VonSeggern, a sophomore from Idyllwild, won the Wisconsin State Flute Festival held in Madison. He was awarded a first-place prize of $350. It was the third straight year a Lawrence University student has won the state flute festival competition. For his 15-minute finals performance, VonSeggern played Georges Hüe’s “Fantaisie Pour Flûte et Piano,” “Night…
Jack Clark, Idyllwild Town Crier co-publisher, has been donating blood to LifeStream for years. He had no idea that he was entered into a sweepstakes for donating. In a phone call he received earlier this month, LifeStream informed him that he was the Southern California winner of two tickets to every Los Angeles Rams home…
After taking first and second place at the first round of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) National Shakespeare Competition held Feb. 13 on the Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) campus, IAA Theatre Department students Madison Chase and Eylül Hancilar went on to win second and fourth place, respectively, at the follow-up competition held March 4 at Palm…
On Friday, Feb. 24, Idyllwild resident Maureen Jones entered a lottery to win tickets to Oprah Winfrey’s Lifeclass in celebration of her 68th birthday. On Sunday, Feb. 26, Jones received an email she thought was spam. Instead, it was notification that she’d won a ticket for herself and a guest to attend that class at…
“Alpacas as an Investment” was featured on the CBS News Sunday Morning March 25. Included in the segment were Anza resident, Julie and Don Roy. They were chosen because of their published material on alpacas as a business and the strength of their Internet presence about alpaca farming.
The Music Center named 110 of Southern California’s most talented high school students as semifinalists in The Music Center’s 31st-annual Spotlight (Spotlight) program, a free nationally-acclaimed scholarship and arts training program for teens. An important part of The Music Center’s fundamental support for arts education, Spotlight is more than a competition. The program provides Southern…
