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PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s traditional Christmas Tree Lighting
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Santa Claus talks about Christmas with the many children who attended Idyllwild’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, “An Olde Fashioned Christmas.”







Idyllwild has two Girl Scout troops. One is Troop 367, which was started last year by Denise Jones and Jennifer Lozano with the hopes of changing young girls’ lives for the better. The other troop is on a winter hiatus. The Girl Scouts of America was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon, according to the…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild, a longstanding and respected Idyllwild volunteer organization, holds its annual Basket Festival, spaghetti dinner and fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Soroptimist supports a number of programs that improve the lives of women and girls both globally and locally — Soroptimist House of Hope, a women’s rehabilitation center; an Alternatives to Domestic…
Besides the better-known arts — music, theater and visual — taught at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, fashion design also is an important part of the curriculum. And similar to the performing arts, the student fashion designers are happy to share their creativity with the local community. Next Saturday, March 11, the school, in cooperation with…
Idyllwild resident author Joy Sikorski, writing with co-author Michael Silversher, changes the fare for this fourth season of Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series when she and Silversher present their biblical historical novel, “Tamar of the Terebinths” (Whispering Voices Publications, 2013). It is the first time the series has featured an historical biblical novel. Sikorski calls…
The Lemon Lily Steering Committee met Wednesday, June 5, as plans for the fourth Lemon Lily Festival firm up. The festival will be the weekend of July 13 and 14 at the Nature Center. In Dave Stith’s absence, Sue Nash gave an update on the Lemon Lily plants, which should be blooming during the festival….
ICF 2013 played out with some weather challenges, bitter cold and some snow and fog, but the festival buzz among filmmakers and audience was warm and glowing. Festival Director Stephen Savage at every opportunity credited Chairman Phil Calderone’s many contributions in raising the bar for this year’s festival — from increasing the number of films…