


PHOTOS: Lemon Lily Festival
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“… I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started… This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I’ve seen you in every corner of the country… You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good…
The opening night film for the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema is Director Will Wallace’s “Red Wing.” Wallace also is the festival’s co-director. “Red Wing” is loosely based on Gearge Sand’s French novella, “The Country Waif.” Rather than the green and pastoral French countryside, “Red Wing” is set in a small Texas cattle ranching town….
Musica! students and teachers are heading into a fifth year of string instruction and concertizing, thanks to the support of generous grants and donors, especially from those in our own neck of the woods. The Community Foundation Serving Riverside and San Bernardino Counties awarded Musica! a $9,500 capacity-building grant for the 2015-16 year, allowing it…
The Town Crier’s Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award 2016 contest is over and though all three sets of nominees — Jerry Holldber, Janet Murasko/Robert Hewitt and Christina Nordella — received numerous votes, the overwhelming victors were Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild volunteers Murasko and Hewitt. The two have stood at the helm of Animal Rescue…
The Los Angeles Music Center announced 108 semifinalists from Southern California high schools as part of its 27th annual “The Music Center Presents Spotlight Program” that included three Idyllwild Arts Academy students. More than 1,600 high school arts students in various disciplines auditioned for this prestigious program. Semifinalists were named in seven arts categories —…
In the early part of the 20th century, a resplendent resident of the San Jacinto Mountains, the lemon lily (Lilium parryi) gently welcomed tourists