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Mei Li Stroud (left), grade 5, was the elementary school spelling bee winner and the alternate was fourth grader Martina Navarrete Urrutia (right). Both girls are shown with their families. Photo courtesy of Kirsten Ingbretsen










Idyllwild School has a new reading intervention teacher. This is Inh Chomthanath’s first year as a reading teacher, but she has 13 years experience as a classroom teacher. This is also Chomthanath’s first year with the Hemet Unified School District (HUSD). She moved to California from North Carolina to be closer to her husband’s mother,…
“Will in the Woods: A Shakespeare Collage” is the latest production from Idyllwild’s Stratford Players. Sunday’s rain didn’t dampen the event since the players moved the St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church outdoor performance to the Christian Science Church across from Town Hall. But for those who missed Saturday’s outdoor event, the Stratford Players will be performing…
The fourth Idyllwild CinemaFest opened Wednesday morning, Jan. 9, with 100 films to be screened over the festival’s five-day run. The 50 percent increase in number of films scheduled (67 last year) is a huge leap forward for the festival, as is the addition of a large new venue, the Astrocamp Galaxy Theatre. This year…
For the seventh consecutive year, the Idyllwild Town Crier is requesting nominations for the annual Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award. Bring your nomination to the Town Crier office at 54405 N. Circle Dr., mail it to P.O. Box 157, Idyllwild, CA 92549, or send by email to becky@towncrier.com by Aug. 31. The honor is given…
Dwight “Buzz” Holmes is part of a distinguished lineage in Idyllwild’s musical history, part of a legacy begun when his father, Robert Evans Holmes, began conducting the Festival Choir at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in 1957 and formed the Idyllwild Master Chorale in 1975. Holmes Amphitheatre at Idyllwild Arts, the successor to…
More to the mathematics of music than the beat “Musical form is close to mathematics — not perhaps to mathematics itself, but certainly to something like mathematical thinking and relationship,” observed 20th century Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. “Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting,”…