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Friday afternoon at Idyllwild Pines Camp was a perfect day for a water slide and lots of local kids took advantage of it to cool off and just have some fun during IPCC Community Activity Day at the camp, a day of opening up the camp to locals for outdoor summer adventure. Photo by Barbara Reese

Cajun fiddler Lisa Haley and her Zydekats arrives in Idyllwild with the force of a major weather front …
Idyllwild Community Center is sponsoring this year’s Great Pumpkin Parade and Carnival, according to Chris Perrault, organizer of the event. Line up for the parade before it begins at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the top of Fern Valley Corners in your best costumes until the command is given to go. The Idyllwild Halloween…
Nancy Borchers, a Pine Cove resident, has been an avid fan of the Idyllwild CinemaFest since it began in 2010. She has once again agreed to share her thoughts about the ICF with readers in a Town Crier exclusive blog. Borchers provided comments and opinions for the 2011 Festival too. Here’s a sample of Nancy’s…
Idyllwild CinemaFest 2013 Chairman Phil Calderone announced festival selections on Dec. 17. A record 98 films — 22 features, 24 featurettes (lengths from 16 to 39 minutes), 29 shorts (up to 15 minutes), 17 documentary features, four documentary shorts (from 2 to 29 minutes) and two web series, including ICF 2013 Featured Filmmaker Ignatius Fischer’s “Freelancers” — will screen in four venues.
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Dr. William “Pete” Lee’s resume, rather than being a dry recital of credits and plaudits, reads like an adventure story — so many universities attended, so many languages and native dialects spoken, so many research projects in fascinating parts of the world while working as an anthropologist and documentary film and television producer. Lee seems…