Pipes in the Pines, featuring the University of California, Riverside, Pipe Band, returns to Idyllwild, Wednesday, July 3. The evening event was sold out last year and this year’s return engagement is also quickly selling tickets. The Pipe band will present an evening of Celtic entertainment from shortly after the gate opens, at Gary Parton’s…

On Oct. 24, 2000, the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument was established. At 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, its 15th anniversary will be celebrated at the monument’s Visitors Center on Highway 74 in Palm Desert. On that day in 2000, then-President Bill Clinton signed the legislation, a bipartisan effort led by former…