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The Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council hosted the second meeting to plan the 2014 Community Wildfire Protection Plan last week. The group’s goal is to have the new CWPP completed by early fall. Before it is finished, President Mike Esnard plans at least one community meeting to discuss and garner public thoughts and recommendations. All…
Idyllwild resident Dick Halligan, original member and principal arranger of the iconic, critically acclaimed horn band, Blood Sweat and Tears (BS&T), presents his one man musical biography “Man Overboard,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, on the Idyllwild School (IS) stage. First performed in Italy, where Halligan and wife live part time, this will be…
When Arsel Kalemoglu came to Idyllwild Arts Academy four years ago at the age of 14, he spoke little English. A native of Antalya, Turkey, Arsel said he learned English “on the page” in Turkey but had little English conversational skill. Now his American-accented English is fluent and he is on his way to Berklee…
Kathy Sacher Wilson has a vision born of experience. With five children of her own, four of whom are now young adults, Wilson has long been connected to what she sees as an endemic Idyllwild problem — that many of Idyllwild’s youth and young adults don’t have a road map for their future or their…
Billy Valentine, jazz vocalist, will perform for the first time at the Jazz in the Pines festival on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 18. Valentine has been singing for years and fans of “Boston Legal” have heard his voice from the theme song to the credits. Rhythm and blues are his favorites, but the audience in The…