Travel Weekly and TravelAge West recently announced that Bob Romano of Idyllwild and Riverside was selected from among hundreds of applicants to attend the fifth-annual Global Travel Marketplace, which took place at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 9 to 11. GTM is a two-and-a-half day appointment-only event for top-producing travel advisors…

A memorial service for Harry and Mary Sigworth is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Idyllwild Community Church.

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…

Brandon Opliger (son of Rocky Opliger, retired US Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest) in the left photo, taken approximately in 1989. Opliger was in an IFPD engine. His mother Lori (Friemoth) Richter worked for IFPD and Brandon was four or five years old. The right-hand photo is Brandon now, age 26, employed with the U.S. Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest, on the Palomar Hotshot Crew, out of Oak Grove Station.

Town Crier learned that Tawny Crist, 71, of Banning, formerly of Idyllwild, died in a two-vehicle collision after her car drifted off the roadway, hit a tree, flipped and slid into an oncoming vehicle. Two people in the other car suffered minor injuries. The crash occurred near Lagunitas in Marin County, California, Friday evening.