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PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s traditional Christmas Tree Lighting
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When longtime Hill residents gather around the campfire and tell tales of Idyllwild banking, they always mention, with awe and reverence, the name of Jeri Sue Haney, recently retired branch manager at PNC Bank. She first came to the Hill in the mid-1970s. She began her career when our local bank was called San Diego…
“I’ve committed my life to creating a delicious vegan culinary experience,” states Kelly Johnston-Gibson, founder of Plant Food Supper Club. “Before moving to Idyllwild, I was orchestrating organic, vegan, gourmet, multi-course, pop-up, ticketed dinners in LA and Orange County,” said Johnston-Gibson. Having no intention of relocating anywhere that did not host a natural-foods offering, Johnston-Gibson…
I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in last week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player needed not only to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…
The 21st Jazz in the Pines festival is history and another demonstration of the multiple talents residing on the Hill. Not only of artists and musicians, but of individuals with other talents and skills able and willing to produce a jazz fest of this stature year after year who reside here, too. “The festival was…
Idyllwild Garden Club President Harold Voorheis (left) and Vice President Michael Feyder install a sign announcing the selection of gardens at the Rustic Cabin as the club’s Garden of the Season. The Idyllwild Garden Club bestows this honor once a quarter to a business that goes the extra mile to beautify Idyllwild.