


Photo by Cheryl Bayse

Photo by Cheryl Bayse

Photo by Cheryl Basye










PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s Tree Lighting ceremony
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The Children’s Choir enthusiastically belts out a carol at the Idyllwild Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Saturday night. Photo by Peter Szabadi















On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast with a direct hit on New Orleans. Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold led a team of art therapists to an evacuation center just north of Baton Rouge to help Katrina survivors, many of them children, to express and externalize the trauma they had experienced…
War Horse Creek (WHC) at Living Free Animal Sanctuary just completed the pilot phase of its veteran transition program and is seeking an initial $150,000 of funding to build out the facilities veterans stay at while they are in the program. Camp Harris, the facilities, will be named after the late Randall Harris, military veteran…
7/3 Ken Dahleen’s Big Band Staff and Rick Michael 7/10 Doc Poster’s Rock Rave 7/17 Buddy Holly Band 7/24 Yve Evans 7/31 Bohemio 8/7 New Sensations 8/14 Blue Breeze Band 8/21 Lisa Haley
Easter promises new life, with a message of optimism and hope. Passover, with its message that with God’s help no difficulty is insurmountable, celebrates resilience in times of darkness. For Idyllwild the past year has provided challenges that continue to affect daily life. First the Cranston Fire in July blackened much of the mountain, burning…
Bob Norman, water quality specialist at Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, is interested in water and history. He brings that passion to the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s Speaker Series …
Rene Eram, filmmaker, author and local gallery owner, once made $10,000 a day as a sought-after commercial TV director. He painstakingly sought to compose the perfect visual balance between a glass of orange juice and a bowl of cereal to satisfy ad execs and their clients. While achieving perfect balance on the small screen, he…