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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

Barbara Longbrook, Idyllwild School K-1 teacher, retired at the end of this school year after a 40-year teaching career. “I knew from the age of 5 that I wanted to be a teacher,” said Longbrook. “It was my very first day at kindergarten. When I saw what was going on, what the teacher was doing,…
Phyllis Mueller’s “office of Mayor Max” will celebrate the first birthday of Mayor Max III and Vice Mayor Meadow from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9. Mountain Paws will host the party and the public, human and four-legged, is invited. Mueller promises a lively time: VIPs both human (Leonard Purvis, formerly captain of Riverside…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale presents “Viva Vivaldi,” IMC’s always popular holiday fusion concert — serving up Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and other chorale confections and then, after intermission, a jubilant jazz holiday sampler. And with choral music where dynamics matter, where pianissimo often goes unheard in many halls, Idyllwild’s new concert gem Lowman Concert Hall provides…
Sky Island Natural Foods, in Strawberry Plaza, is hosting an artists’ reception featuring the work of Irena Carlson and Lisa Coffaro. Carlson and Coffaro are Idyllwild artists who both work in bold colors although in different media. Carlson, who has lived in Turkey, France and New Zealand works in painting, photography and collage, with an…
Local horsemen are assisting the San Diego Natural History Museum in its centennial survey of the San Jacinto Mountains’ vertebrate wildlife …