

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

On Thursday, Feb, 8, a select group of Idyllwild Arts Academy students flew east to Boston, Massachusetts. On Friday, they toured the town and the university scene near the Berklee College of Music, which happens to be on the opposite side of the Charles River from Harvard and MIT. Within a 15-minute walk, the students…
National Night Out is from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3. The Hemet Sheriff’s Station is hosting the event this year at the newly opened Lake Hemet Mountain Station, located at 56550 Highway 74 (near the entrance to Lake Hemet).Come out to meet fire personnel and law enforcement.
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) returns to town at the Rustic Theatre Tuesday, March 5, and continues for five more days, until the evening of Sunday, March 10. And once again, 100 films from more than a dozen countries will be available for viewing. All film screenings will be live and shown at…
This week the Crier sat down with the new owners of Café Aroma, Eric and Adrienne Edmunds. The couple take over the storied “Café, Bistro and Social Club” from Erica and Stewart Klair, who made a lot of friends in their brief tour of duty here, and, like Aroma’s many guests, the Edmunds have only…
In our March 31 edition, we noted that a number of anonymous group meetings had decided to move their meetings from the Idyllwild Spiritual Living Center to other locations. Incorrectly noted was that the center was closing on April 1, according to a representative of one of the anonymous groups. We have since learned that…