

Community remembers Don Lenik
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Don Lenik was remembered with stories, poems and an impromptu song on Sunday afternoon at the Community Center site. Francoise Frigola, Gabriella Dapeer, Judith Schonebaum and Trudy Levy organized the memorial. The traditional Jewish Kaddish Yatom (The Mourner’s Kaddish) was recited at the end of the gathering. Photo by Barbara Reese

After another wet and cool week, winter appears to have ended and spring arrives this week. Temperatures will reach the 60s by Wednesday and warm even more by Easter Sunday. Last week, more rainfall came to the Hill. The U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Station recorded slightly more than three-quarters of an inch of rain Thursday….
Robot play extended at Rustic Theater For those who can’t get enough Halloween, Sam Plonski is adding one more Saturday of his Robot play, November 8. The mechanical extravaganza is the latest of many unique events that Rustic Theater proprietors Gail and Graham Sutherland have been bringing to the stage. The show will be free…
Twenty-one sixth through eighth grade Idyllwild Middle School students attended the first after-school session of the Idyllwild Youth Grantmakers on Thursday, Sept. 15. They will attend eight two-hour after school sessions learning to be philanthropists and community volunteers. This marks the beginning of the fifth year of this groundbreaking program that teaches young people how…
By Riverside CountyContributed Approximately, 1,288,000 vote-by-mail ballots were mailed to voters starting Monday, Aug. 16, for the gubernatorial recall election on Sept. 14. While the ballot mailing started Monday, it is expected to take four days for all ballots to make it in the mail. Completed ballots must be received at the Registrar of Voters…
The first of the Community Dialogue projects, a Family Mentoring Program got off to a solid start on Monday, Aug. 29. The community dialogues began in response to several hate crimes in Idyllwild in spring and fall of 2010 and a subsequent escalation of graffiti throughout town. The Family Mentoring Program is designed to train…