
Local Hollywood star Elsie Fisher, right, 10-year-old voice over in “Despicable Me,” signs posters in the lobby of the Rustic Theatre as part of a fundraiser for Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company 621 last Thursday night.
Photo by Careena Chase
Elsie Fisher at the Rustic
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Local Hollywood star Elsie Fisher, right, 10-year-old voice over in “Despicable Me,” signs posters in the lobby of the Rustic Theatre as part of a fundraiser for Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company 621 last Thursday night.
Photo by Careena Chase
Don StollContributed David Reid-Marr’s schedule remains full even in semi-retirement. Two years after stepping down as Chair of Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Visual Arts Department, he’s teaching only two classes. “But that means you can give as much time to two classes as you used to give to four or five,” he smiles. “Besides which I…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) honored three former local paid call firefighters (PCF) at an appreciation ceremony at the station Thursday evening, Jan. 18, in the IFPD board room. The honorees are three longtime Idyllwild community members and business owners: Capt. Keith Smith (Harold K. Smith Construction Co.), who served for 40 years (1973-2013);…
At its apex, ancient Rome is believed to have had 1,000,000 inhabitants, monumental architecture and advanced infrastructure. It was also, according to Ron Singerton’s novel “Villa of Deceit” (Penmore Press, 2015), a dangerous labyrinth reeking of arrogance, corruption, abuse of power, and an environment where the fittest survived and others were trampled upon — a…
The weather is cooperating. No late spring snows are in the forecast …
Volunteers with the Scouts West 4×4 Club spent a weekend recently blocking an unauthorized road leading into the Santa Rosa Wilderness above Palm Desert.