PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s hometown July 4th parade
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Principal Matt Kraemer will be retiring at the end of June and handing over the job to current Idyllwild School sixth grade teacher Nicole Picchiottino. The newspaper ran a front-page story on her last week. Kraemer was with the Hemet Unified School District for 24 years. He was a teacher in Yuma, Arizona for 15…
Idyllwild’s own American Idol (season 10 contestant) Casey Abrams entertains students at Idyllwild School on Monday, Dec. 16.
A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” will be the epistolary valentine for Idyllwild from Isis Theatre Company. The first production of 2015, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Rainbow Inn. The first Isis Readers Theatre production of the season is…
With details still to be resolved, it appears Kathy Sacher Wilson’s popular Idyllwild Haunted Ghost Town will move to Town Hall for its 12th year. Wilson confirmed an agreement in principle with Riverside County Regional Parks and Open Space District. The month-long event, from Friday, Oct. 9. through Halloween night, Saturday, Oct. 31, would feature…
Feature new jazz innovators and jazz legends Jazz in the Pines returns to its original roots, under the guidance of founder Marshall Hawkins and John Newman, Idyllwild Art Academy director of business operations. Gone are the days of smooth jazz headliners in Holmes Amphitheatre. From this point forward, producers intend to feature up-and-coming jazz innovators,…
Yve Evans, locally popular jazz chanteuse, returns to the Hill “just for the locals.”