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Idyllwild Town Crier Staff Reporter Marshall Smith has garnered another honorable mention this year, this one for Best Sports Feature Story for “Todd Carpenter finishes first in under 50 in Race Across the West” that ran last year. The award was from the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Editorial Contest in the Daily and…
Idyllwild’s Fourth of July celebrations begin with the 53rd-annual parade sponsored by the Idyllwild Rotary Club for the 16th year. This classic small-town parade, large on substance, will originate from Fern Valley Corners and proceed to the town center at 10 a.m. with more than 75 participants. Organizers suggest viewers pack breakfast, park and set…
John Edward Marin was looking for studio space where he could paint andfound more: space for three painters and his Wylldwood Gallery. “Thiswas not anticipated, it happened all very spur-of-the-moment. I saw thespace in December, moved in Jan. 5.” Marin began painting relatively recently, in 2003. “I was told by apsychic my art would hang…
Lanny and Lorraine Hardy celebrate their one-year anniversary of their ownership of The Creek House restaurant with Chris and Melody Johnston of Middle Ridge Winery, Temecula, on Saturday afternoon. Middle Ridge Winery held a wine tasting on the deck in celebration of the anniversary.
“For me, all design is emotional,” said landscape designer Mark Taylor. “I have to be patient and allow the design to generate. By listening and being slow, the land speaks to me.” Taylor forges landscapes, working with both the massive and the delicate — the boulders and the trickling water, steel girders and wooden decks….
Local author and United Kingdom native Sabrina Verney found paradise in 1966 on a beach in the Yucatan at the age of 19 with a dedicated group of truth seekers called The Process. The Process sought, according to Verney, to “peel away all your social training up to that point and replace it with what…