PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Thursday morning, May 22, the Hill was overrun with fire vehicles.
Ninety thousand dead oaks, killed off since the Goldspotted oak borer was discovered in 2004 in San Diego County, is no small problem …
With trumpeter Stan Watkins and vocalist Sherry Williams, the Keith Droste Quintet wowed the capacity crowd at its Thursday, Aug. 4 performance as part of Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Keith Droste, on keyboard, along with Luther Hughes on bass and Sinclair Lott on drums played a medley of Broadway show tunes, old standards and jazz and pop selections.
Santa’s Mail Box is now at the Idyllwild Post Office ready to receive letters from local children …
At the culmination of the Idyllwild Nature Center’s “Butterfly Daze,” hundreds of Monarch butterflies are set free into the forest. Residents and visitors are first allowed to view the butterflies up close inside tents.