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PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: March 31, 2016
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Connie Kupka, violin, Edith Orloff, piano, David Speltz, cello and David Peck, clarinet played Peter Schickele’s music written for those four instruments at the first concert of the Distinguished Artist Chamber Music at Idyllwild Arts last week.
The Fern Creek Medical Center may once again be on the brink of reopening, according to Nurse Practitioner Natalya Ptashinsky. Ptashinsky attempted to reopen in 2022 after Dr. Bryn Henderson pulled his Regenerative Medical Group practice out in November 2021. Henderson had engaged in a rapid expansion; opening several clinics around the country in 2020,…
The Idyllwild Poetry Society, a new organization “formed with the purpose of promoting poetry and the literary arts in the Idyllwild community,” will hold its first event this weekend at the new Recht Gallery. The event will include readings by three poets: Annalise Oatmen, Anthony Q Mack and Eszter Takács. The reading will be followed…
Café Aroma has organized a benefit concert for Rachel Welch and her children, Opal and Jasper Larkin, following the untimely death of her husband, James Larkin, who died June 3 at the young age of 39. The Art Alliance of Idyllwild organized a silent auction that is available for viewing at 3 p.m. Sunday, July…
With the changing of ownership of the Christmas tree property — now Idypark — to Dave and Loie Butterfield, and the resignation of Phyllis Mueller from organizing the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, this year’s event also brings changes. Chris Perrault, owner of Silver Pines Lodge and Creekstone Inn, is organizing the event this year…
From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! — Old Scottish prayer. Kathy Sacher-Wilson and crew are in the process of constructing and decorating their annual Halloween walk-through spook fest, set to open on Friday, Oct. 7, and run weekends though Halloween, Monday,…