

Bob Smith shows Idyllwild then and now
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Bob Smith, author and local historian, speaks at last Wednesday’s Idyllwild Community Recreation Council Speaker Series event. Smith teamed with photographer John Drake to present a photographic retrospective called “Idyllwild Then and Now.” Photo by Marshall Smith

If there were a Shangri-La, the dreamed-of mystical country of James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon,” it would probably be Bhutan. Public radio reporter Lisa Napoli moved there in 2007 to help develop a national radio station to engage Bhutanese youth in the country’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy. Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has only…
David Rostro, manager of Mama’s Egg House, spoke to the Town Crier Friday morning about the restaurant which opened Aug. 28. The restaurant is located at 54241 Ridgeview Drive, the former home of Plant Food Supper Club. “We opened on a Friday, but we didn’t expect to get much business because we didn’t promote anything,…
“Lovers and Other Strangers” is the annual Memorial Day theater production to support the Idyllwild HELP Center. The play, by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna, will be presented daily from Friday, May 27, to Monday, May 30, at Town Hall. The popular play debuted in September 1968 and was a 1970 film, for which the…
Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department breaks new ground with an original musical based on Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Heather Reba, IAA theater faculty and professional musical theater actor, wrote book, music and lyrics for “Welcome to Sleepy Hollow” and orchestrated her score for the IAA pit band. Reba is the…
“The Idyllwild Area Historical Society and museum used to have a beautiful, old, but healthy large pine tree in front of our garden facing North Circle Drive,” wrote IAHS Vice President Marlene Pierce. “However, several months ago, a Southern California Edison crew topped the tree, leaving a huge pine trunk.” One IAHS board member stepped…
Ten Idyllwild Middle School students displayed their work at a nicely mounted art show on the stage of the Idyllwild School gymnasium. Faculty advisor Lenore Sazer proudly noted that of her graduating eighth grade featured artists, five are applying to Idyllwild Arts.