

Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Howard Cheng (right) gives Chelsea Sik a spin during the Idyllwild Arts’ Spring Fashion Show Friday night at Rush Hall on campus.
Photo by Jenny Kirchne
PHOTOS: Last week at Idyllwild Arts
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“It’s hard to lose one of our own,” said Anna Ancheta, director of Local Color, Idyllwild’s female a capella singing group. She spoke of the death last year of member Sabrina Verney and how her passing influenced a project that had begun several years before. “Each year on Martin Luther King’s birthday, the group holds…
Mark D. Smith is Idyllwild’s new postmaster and follows a proud tradition dating back when Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster of the United States. Smith replaces Ray Wilson, who retired in June. In 2011, Smith began his postal career as the postmaster relief in Donald, Oregon. He was promoted to postmaster in Marylhurst, Oregon…
Kids came to the Valentine’s Day Pajama Party at Town Hall
During last weekend’s Lemon Lily Festival, a lemon lily bloomed along Strawberry Creek.
After 52 years of operation, Knotty Pine Cabins on Pine Crest Avenue closed its doors on July 16. It ends a long run of serving mountain visitors that began in 1964 when Doug and Bonnie Reed, Doug’s mother Elizabeth Wood, daughter Callie and son Ed became a family of innkeepers. Over the years, management changed…