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Idyllwild School fifth-grade girls (from left) Allyah Bride, Brooke Arnson, Leslie Pimental and McKenzie Nunez placed first in the fifth-grade team event at last week’s Middle School cross-country meet. Overall, Idyllwild students earned eight medals. Vinny Parillo placed in the seventh-grade boys run, Carmen Pratt in the eighth-grade girls, and Noah Rutherford and Evan Biley in the eighth-grade boys meet. Photo courtesy of Joe Neu



Brendan Steele moved up the leaderboard from last week, tying for 30th at the Wells Fargo Championship on the Quail Hollow course in Charlotte, North Carolina. The native Idyllwilder carded a 3-under-par 72-72-69-72 — 285 to earn 38 FedExCup points. Steele now stands 67th on the FedExCup list with 446 points with about four months…
CBS, which will broadcast the Memorial Tournament on the weekend, will also feature Steele prior to Sunday’s golf coverage in a video interview show called “Coming Home.” Steele’s portion of that show was taped several weeks ago here in Idyllwild at Restaurant Gastrognome. The show’s moderator is Seth Feder, who brought his west-coast video-sound crew…
Baseball Mike Holato of Town Hall gave this report on Youth Baseball: (Note: Players of the game for both teams receive a game ball after each game.) T-Ball The Dodgers and Giants played two games. In the first game, Augie Titus of the Giants and Chaz Piche of the Dodgers were players of the game….
With 70 felony property crimes reported from Jan. 1 through Aug. 11 this year in Idyllwild and Pine Cove, concerned residents are rapidly convening to form Neighborhood Watch groups.