

Raptor talk at Caine Learning Center
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Nancy Connery, director of Sky Hunters Raptor Education and Rehabilitation Center in Alpine, made a presentation at the Caine Learning Center on Saturday. She brought with her two birds from her center, a Western screech owl and a barn owl. Above Connery is with a 2-year-old screech owl with an injured wing. Photo by Careena Chase


This weekend is the 20th-annual Jazz in the Pines festival and third festival Marsha Lytle has chaired. “I feel great about it,” Lytle said Friday, Aug. 9. “Ticket sales are exceeding expectations. I’m sure the special two-day deal helped. The last two weeks have been huge. I don’t remember sales this strong this close to…
Poet, writer, teacher and translator, Alba Cruz-Hacker, will read from her recent works at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9. The reading will be held in the Fireside Room in Nelson Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus. The Dominican-American Alba Cruz-Hacker is the author of “No Honey for Wild Beasts,” which has been published in the…
Swamp King Troy Landry (right) is stepping out of the Bayou and into Soboba Casino. If you haven’t yet seen History Channel’s “Swamp People,” you are missing out on all of the tree shaking, gator catching, Louisiana goodness that is the Cajun way of life. When the show first aired in 2010, it gained the…
In announcing Chris Reba as the new Idyllwild Arts Academy music chair, Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan touted Reba’s versatility across multiple musical genres, as well as his professional background and expertise in sound recording and engineering. Although trained in both classical and jazz music, Reba is the first IAA music chair to be…
By Idyllwild Community GardenContributed Renown Idyllwild Forest Garden expert Peter Kindfield will teach the second of his three class series this Saturday Aug. 14. New class time to beat the heat will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.Sign up at www.idyllwildgarden.org in the Calendar section for all classes. They are free but donations are most…