

Village Hair Creations reopens under new owners
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Joanna Bandelin and Vanessa Garcia, new owners of Village Hair Creations, welcome visitors to their Grand Opening, Saturday, Nov. 3. Photo by Barbara Reese

Local high school seniors need to submit applications for the Idyllwild Scholarship Fund to the Idyllwild School office by the end of the school day Tuesday, April 15. The criteria are: 1) parent or legal guardian and student have lived in the attendance area served by Idyllwild School for three or more years of their…
On Sept. 2, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, having married in 1961 in Lake Arrowhead Community Church. But it was this Hill where they spent most of their married life working, volunteering, living and raising their four children Steven, Bonnie, Brian and Martha. Michael Alan Pearson, 83, and Emily Martha Pearson, 78, succumbed to…
Lucky, a 7-year-old Yorkshire terrier, had very bad luck. He was a pawn caught in an emotional triangle involving great distance, his female owner in Utah, her new truck-driver boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s wife and family in California. But then a team from the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild changed the little Yorkie’s bad luck…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors submitted a 22-page response with attachments to the county grand jury’s May report critical of the board’s awarding Community Improvement Designation funds to local nonprofits.
Members of Idyllwild Arts Academy staff discussed the plans for a new campus health center at last week’s Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission meeting. “The new health center will be an extraordinary resource for us,” John Newman, Dean of Students and Director of Operations, told the fire commission. He said the new facility would be…
Editor’s note: Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez has completed his second term as Chair of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. He was Chair for 2025 and also 2020. He represents the Fourth Supervisorial District, which includes Idyllwild, Pine Cove and Mountain Center. The following is an interview with Supervisor Perez about his tenure…...