After the recent mid-year board meeting of the California Press Association, President Will Fleet announced that Becky Clark (right), former publisher of the Idyllwild Town Crier, will serve as first vice president of the association … Celebrating a birthday this week are Ann Kohler Castillo and Denise Huntington. To get your birthday listed, e-mail beth@towncrier.com…

The Music Center named 110 of Southern California’s most talented high school students as semifinalists in The Music Center’s 31st-annual Spotlight (Spotlight) program, a free nationally-acclaimed scholarship and arts training program for teens. An important part of The Music Center’s fundamental support for arts education, Spotlight is more than a competition. The program provides Southern…

Hemet High School senior Erec VonSeggern received a $2,000 performance grant from the Hemet Community Concert Association. He performed the second movement from John La Montaine’s “Sonata for Solo Flute.” Erec will attend Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., as a music major.

Iris Davison of Idyllwild choreographed a dance to her husband Peter Davison’s music. The dance is titled “Towards Forever.” They made a dance video on Inspiration Point, videography by Rebecca Frazier and John Drake. It also features Heather Netz, violin teacher at Idyllwild Arts Academy, playing the solo. The video was just selected for the…