Jr. Naturalists learn about deer

On Sunday, May 17, the Idyllwild Climbers Alliance will host the fifth annual Climbers Festival. Dedicated climbers, passionate about Idyllwild’s rock climbing opportunities, will meet to clean up trails leading to major climbing destinations on Tahquitz and Suicide rocks. “We’ll focus on cleaning up the trails to prevent erosion,” said coordinator Jim Pinter-Lucke, Claremont resident…
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…
The sixth-annual Lemon Lily Festival begins Thursday, July 9, with the increasingly popular and favorite Lemon Lily Launch and the Taste of Idyllwild. Then the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, is filled with special events for children and adults. The festival was started to honor a once very common native flower in…
Saturday Kirsten Ingbretsen (right), owner of the Acorn Gallery, held a open house and reception for the stone sculptor Duane Dammeyer. They are standing behind “Mind Meld,” one of Dammeyer’s beautiful sculptures made of golden calcite and granite.
In the higher regions of Idyllwild and Pine Cove, a light dusting of snow still covers the ground just days before Christmas – an unexpected present following last Friday’s heavy rainfall. As it does especially in the cool winter air, the mountain sparkles with sunlight dappling its pines during brilliantly clear days and smoke from…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s Spotlight on Leadership next presentation is at 10 a.m. Monday, June 10, in the Idyllwild Arts campus’ Fireside Room in Nelson Dining Hall. Faith Raiguel will share her lifelong commitment to the arts. The series is open to all at no charge. Raiguel will speak about her lifelong…