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PHOTOS: The week in Idyllwild, Dec. 29, 2016
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The Christmas Eve snow attracted many visitors to Idyllwild on Christmas Day. Traffic around the Butterfield Commons on Strawberry Creek, Ridgeview Drive and Highway 243 was more like city commuter traffic than Idyllwild …




Local jazz icon Marshall Hawkins brought in a band of brothers, and a sister or two, to the first ever, post Jazz in the Pines
Theater artist Suzanne Avalon is no neophyte. She knows her stuff, has studied with New York theater royalty, has paid her dues and makes a habit of giving back to the Idyllwild community. She is an experienced actor, producer and entrepreneur who gave up a successful career in Hollywood to come to Idyllwild, raise her…
By Ken LuberIdyllwild author Editor’s note: This is the third of several installments of a short story local author Kenneth Luber has written. See the last two Town Crier for the other installments. “I know what you’re going to say,” I quickly jumped in. “‘Milton had no idea of its sentimental value,’ but I’m just…
Tod Goldberg is a much-lauded novelist with a wicked sense of humor. He returns to wrap up Eduardo Santiago’s fifth-annual Idyllwild Authors Series on Sunday, June 28. If you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry at life’s absurdities and enjoy a well-crafted piece of fiction — dark, zany and touching — Goldberg’s discussion of…