Town Crier readers voted Pine Cove resident Annamarie Padula recipient of the 2014 Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award. The award is given in memory of Town Crier founder, publisher, editor and cartoonist Ernie Maxwell whose community and environmental activism added significantly to the growth and identity of the Hill during its post-World War II heyday….

Harold Wherry and his 6-piece Blue Breeze Band return to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with their distinctive vocal harmonies and happening horn section, sampling the best of Motown, R&B, soul, funk jazz and blues. Taking the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, Wherry’s established ensemble plays the kind of smooth and visceral music…

The first of four shows by Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Visual Arts seniors — all of them free and open to the public — begins Friday, Feb. 15, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts campus.   That first show, called “Epoch,” like the shows whose…