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Yoga Instructor, Trine Bietz (right) teaches young students how to stand in the “tree” yoga position at Town Hall last Thursday. Photo by Jenny Kirchner




The Town Crier, the Idyllwild Library and the Idyllwild Area Historical Society have partnered to provide vintage issues of the town newspaper online and free at the Idyllwild Library. Started in November 1946 by Ernie and Betty Maxwell, the Town Crier is one of Idyllwild’s oldest ongoing businesses. Shannon Ng, Idyllwild Library librarian, cited the…
The first of 2023’s Thursday night free Idyllwild Summer Concerts is set for July 6 at the Butterfield Amphitheater. It will feature series veteran Frank DiSalvo and his classic country band the Sundowners. The Sundowners feature “the good old boys: Willie, Waylon, Cash, Buck, Merle, George Jones … no new country!” Like all the headliners,…
ARF has taken an important and vital step forward, due solely to the desire of Robert Hewitt to provide a search and rescue program for lost or missing dogs …
Built in 1921, the Historic Hemet Theatre is one of the oldest surviving movie houses in the country, according to CEO Susan Carrier. The first movie house in Hemet was built in 1913 across the street from the current theater where the Strawberry Bike Shop building stands. The theater was a vibrant cultural center of…
Imagine a novel in which a major presidential candidate builds his platform on deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants and secures his party’s nomination. That is the basis for “Crossings: A Political Fable of the Near Future” by Sid Gardner, a novelist experienced in government service in the District of Columbia, and co-author Scott Robinson, an…