Ashlee Strunk of Idyllwild has been selected for a 2014 Don Bethune Memorial Scholarship for $1,000. Dayco Corporation funded the scholarship. She plans to attend Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga to study automotive technology.

The 41st-annual Inland Theatre League Awards Ceremony, honoring performances from 2015, was held Sunday, March 20. Isis Theatre Company, now Idyllwild Actors Theatre, received two wins for a performance in February 2015: Howard Shangraw as Andrew and Suzanne Avalon as Melissa in “Love Letters.” The Stratford Players won three awards for the September 2015 production…

Audrey Carver of Idyllwild has joined more than 1,500 undergraduate students from around the world as they begin their academic careers at Tufts University, located in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts. In all, only 14.6 percent of a record-breaking 21,501 applicants were admitted to the university, the second-lowest acceptance rate in university history. “We often talk about creating…

Brandon Opliger (son of Rocky Opliger, retired US Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest) in the left photo, taken approximately in 1989. Opliger was in an IFPD engine. His mother Lori (Friemoth) Richter worked for IFPD and Brandon was four or five years old. The right-hand photo is Brandon now, age 26, employed with the U.S. Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest, on the Palomar Hotshot Crew, out of Oak Grove Station.