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The Idyllwild Mountain Quilters float displays an array of red, white and blue quilts. Photo by J.P. Crumrine















The Seahawk Mojo will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, at the IAF Theatre on the Idyllwild Arts Academy campus. Led by Idyllwild’s Marshall Hawkins, Seahawk and others will present the performance in honor of Black History Month. “This is a journey that started [with] last year’s performance,” Hawkins said. “It’s about what happened…
What do you do when your country, an acknowledged military and economic powerhouse, has fought a prolonged war and is in economic crisis? Laugh! …
By Ken LuberIdyllwild author Editor’s note: This is the last of several installments of a short story local author Kenneth Luber has written. See prior Town Criers for the other installments. Fortunately, Fred had decided to renovate the breakfast nook. He hired two workers to make the window looking out on the backyard larger, strip…
By Evan Mills“Finding My Little Red Hat” Editor At 97, former Miss America Jo-Carroll Dennison of Pine Cove on Sept. 13 published her memoir, “Finding My Little Red Hat.” Born in a men’s prison (read the book) in Florence, Arizona in 1923, Dennison learned to walk (and dance and sing) on a medicine show traveling…
The newly elected board of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild met on Saturday, Jan. 28, to revise the organization’s bylaws. Outgoing President Shanna Rob said bylaws needed revision since this was the first leadership transition since they were initially drafted. “This was the first election in which the members had a voice in electing their…
Every day dogs can be seen walking the Idyllwild streets. It is not uncommon to see a few cats either. But Dr. John Laundré, assistant director of the University of California, Riverside’s James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, and the next Idyllwild Community Center speaker, will show the audience that the cats, which he has seen…