



Idyllwild Garden Club’s annual Lilac Walk & Tea
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Young servers (from left) Shelby Read, Emma Isaac, Megan Read and Olivia Hernandez help during the Idyllwild Garden Club’s Annual Lilac Walk and Tea Saturday morning. Visitors received a history of the lilac garden from owner Gary Parton and members of the Idyllwild Garden Club along the paths.




Members of the 2015 Lilac Festival Committee take a break after planting 50 lilacs at the Idyllwild Inn on Saturday.
Fishing report from Tammy Toral, general manager of the Diamond Valley Marina, who said, “Lots of fish caught this past week!”
After a nearly four-hour budget workshop on Saturday, commission recognized the district’s perilous financial condition …
Millions of free books were hand-delivered to unsuspecting individuals on Monday, April 23, around the U.S., U.K. and Ireland as part of World Book Night 2012 — “Spreading the love of reading, person to person” — including in Idyllwild. These happy Café Aroma customers were visited by “Book Fairies,” representing INK Book Gathering in Idyllwild, who gave them a few titles from a list of 30. A discussion of World Book Night followed on Tuesday at INK.
There are now three businesses in Idyllwild that in some form dispense medical marijuana or cannabis products. According to proprietors, they have different operational models and different objectives. The latest, Higher Gardenz, according to spokesperson Mike Boris, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) cooperative run by a team of volunteers. Higher Gardenz shares a suite fronting Highway…