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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.




Caroline Oltmanns explains that her parents were unhappy with her plans to study piano. “They wanted me to do something to make a living at,” she said. Oltmanns’ parents probably learned to accept her musical studies. They’ve led to a career of concerts throughout the world and to rave notices for her as playing as…
Drop into a Starbucks and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature-controlled Ember Ceramic Mug (named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2017), and about a thousand stores carry the Ember Travel Mug.
Sherry Williams (left), Conductor Dwight “Buzz” Holmes (right) and the Idyllwild Master Chorale perform “Sigh No More Ladies” by John Dankworth last Saturday night at Stephens Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus.
I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in this week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player not only needed to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…