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Award-winning author Samantha Dunn (right) was this week’s speaker at Eduardo Santiago’s (left) Idyllwild Author Series Sunday afternoon. Dunn was a finalist for the PEN West Fiction Award in 2000 for her book “Failing Paris” and has been published in numerous national publications, including the Los Angeles Times, O (Oprah) Magazine, Ms. and Shape. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

The Community Foundation Serving the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino will conduct a grant-writing and technical-assistance workshop from 1 to 3 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, for Idyllwild nonprofits at the Idyllwild Library community meeting room. The Idyllwild Community Fund, a fund of The Community, is now accepting grant proposals from local, qualified nonprofit organizations…
Audience members were treated to a delightful evening as they listened to “Man Overboard,” a one-man show featuring Dick Halligan, founding member of “Blood Sweat & Tears” And in support of the Idyllwild School music program.
By Larry BrookIdyllwild Resident “B-110” the announcer calls. “F-89” They’re calling out numbers at the Hemet, California Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Juanita and I are here to get our California driver’s license and Real ID. To reach the DMV in Hemet, we drove down the twisting, turning mountain road from Idyllwild to Hemet. It…
Principal Matt Kraemer will be retiring at the end of June and handing over the job to current Idyllwild School sixth grade teacher Nicole Picchiottino. The newspaper ran a front-page story on her last week. Kraemer was with the Hemet Unified School District for 24 years. He was a teacher in Yuma, Arizona for 15…
Idyllwild’s Emma Klingaman finished eighth in the Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals cross-country meet
“Love, Loss and What I Wore” will be Isis’s initial 2013 production. The Ephron sisters — well-known Nora and Delia — wrote a series of monologues based on Ilene Beckerman’s 1995 book of the same title. The subjects range from relationships to wardrobes, and women’s clothing serves as a time capsule of her life. Nora…