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Photos of the week: September 15, 2016
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Idyllwild Fire and the Idyllwild Volunteer Fire Company set up their annual 9/11 tribute on Highway 243 Sunday afternoon. Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz wrote, “As 9/11 falls on a Sunday we are encouraging everyone to spend this day with their families. IFPD will again show our respect to those whom made the ultimate sacrifice by flying Old Glory high and proud from our Ladder on T621. Please take a moment to say I love you to your loved ones & remember the families of all of those that died in and since as a result the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” Photo by Jenny Kirchner






Brendan Constantine has been teaching with Idyllwild Arts summer poetry and creative writing programs for most of the last 17 years and agreed to tell his class’ evacuation story. More than 200 kids plus teachers and counselors were abruptly moved off campus. Subsequently, many students were picked up by their parents in Banning that afternoon….
After a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” (Atria Books, 2012). Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants…
If there were a Shangri-La, the dreamed-of mystical country of James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon,” it would probably be Bhutan. Public radio reporter Lisa Napoli moved there in 2007 to help develop a national radio station to engage Bhutanese youth in the country’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy. Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has only…
Sitting on a trailside rock, eating my lunch and throughly enjoying the cool breeze, I happened to witness an encounter that reminded me of how “unofficial” and sometimes just plain confusing the world of trail etiquette is. A young couple were barreling down the trail, obviously dog-tired from a long day of hiking. A single…
For anyone who regularly drives on Highway 243 near Poppet Flats and wondered what the sign “Skyland” advertised, the answer came on Saturday, Feb. 27. More than a thousand supporters of Girl Scout camps gathered for a ribbon cutting marking the reopening of the 191-acre Camp Skyland Ranch. It is the newest property owned and…
The Marine Band is an 18-piece jazz ensemble led by Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Bley …