


PHOTOS: Last Week in Idyllwild: August 27, 2015
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The Idyllwild Assembly of God Church conducted its first service as an Idyllwild congregation on Sunday, Jan. 10. According to Pastor Mark Garrett, 38 people attended. “The next Sunday, Jan. 17, attendance had grown to 44 people,” said Garrett. Garrett had been associate pastor at Valle Vista Assembly of God in Hemet for five years….
Local musician Anna Ancheta builds a bridge …
This year marks the 108th anniversary of probably the most famous Christmas newspaper editorial of all time. It was written by Francis P. Church in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. It was published on Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun. We reprint it each year for the enjoyment of our…
The 25th-annual Jazz in the Pines is barely over and already, another three-day music festival is planned for the following weekend. Brian Parnell of Throw The Goat is organizing Idyllwild Strong, a Cranston Fire benefit festival, from 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, at various…
The Idyllwild Community Fund is planning to assume full responsibility of the local Youth Grantmakers program for 2015-16. The Community Foundation of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, in conjunction with ICF, initiated the program in 2013 but decided it has successfully nurtured it and has withdrawn its financial and staff support. The foundation had funded…
Samantha Dunn, the next presenter in Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, grew up with horses in rural hardscrabble New Mexico. Riding, dance, growing up poor in parched Southwest landscapes, her mother’s brilliance and alcoholism, and Dunn’s journey to redefine herself as a grown woman are key themes in her writing. “At the age of 3…