
Chu Wong visited Idyllwild to play in the snow after the storms last week.
She and her family were surprised to find only small patches in Humber Park.
Photo by John Pacheco

Photo by J.P. Crumrine


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George Snyder (right), the guest novelist on Sunday at the weekly Author Series, is being interviewed by one of our local published authors Eduardo Santiago at the INK Book Gathering. Snyder shared with the audience his love for writing about small communities, communities within communities, and his fascination about what draws people together within a community. His third novel, “Into Deeper Waters,” is almost complete and ready for press. His fist two novels are available at INK.
There’s good news this week for local and visiting pickleball players. Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) has repaired the pickleball court fence. The court was significantly damaged in a Thanksgiving windstorm in 2021 when a large pine tree on Idyllwild Pines’ grounds, where ICC’s pickleball court is located, snapped and fell across the two courts. It…
What could be better than an outdoor summer concert with the big band hits of the Dorsey Brothers and vocals made famous by the Pied Pipers? And it’s not just nostalgia for another time. This music swings. The smooth sounds of clarinets, saxes, trumpets and trombones in recognizable ’40s harmony, driven by a walking bass…
Eric Bolton remembers being given the solo in “In Idyllwild” as part of four summers with the ISOMATA music program. He sang under the direction of Robert Evans Holmes for whom the Idyllwild Arts amphitheater is named. Now as a recent full-time resident of Idyllwild, he is singing under the direction of Dwight “Buzz” Holmes,…
Liang Wang, Idyllwild Arts (IA) alumnus and principal oboist with the New York Philharmonic, returns to Idyllwild for a reunion with the IA Academy Orchestra. As distinguished visiting faculty, Wang will perform as the featured soloist Mozart’s “Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, K. 314.” The IA orchestra is under the direction of…
With the initial formation of Idyllwild Indivisibles’ environmental committee, Melanie Lamaga, Dr. Joan McCullough, Karen Johnston and Mallory Cremin became community leaders for climate change. However, it didn’t take long to realize the overwhelming nature of their call to action. Lamaga began researching. “I picked CCL because of their bi-partisan support in Congress, their market-friendly,…