
Photos by Amy Righetti



Talent on display at Blast to the Past
By Idyllwild Town Crier
The annual Blast to the Past show was Friday night at Idyllwild School. While Vicky Lovett is singing, McKenna Lovett and Sophia Dillion are performing in the background

Photos by Amy Righetti



On Thursday, Nov. 24, to celebrate 30 years in business, the Candy Cupboard did what it has been doing best all these years, making children happy with its wide assortment of delicious treats. From left, are Morgan Steele, Abbey Borcher, Wyatt Steele and Ben Borcher. At center is store employee Alexis Sinclair.
The Valentine’s Day storm that dumped historic levels of rain with accompanying wind and snow, caused massive damage to Hill infrastructure closing two of the main arteries into Idyllwild — highways 243 and 74. Continued post-Feb. 14 rain and snow complicated Caltrans’ efforts to repair both roads, causing setbacks that, until Monday, Feb. 18, caused…
Idyllwild punk rock-metal band Throw The Goat got a big present to kick off 2018. The newly resurrected Combat Records label, which went dark for 15 years before reemerging in 2016, specializes in thrash metal bands under the EMP Label Group. It announced the winners of a Band-to-Band Combat contest on Jan. 1. Throw The…
Cathie Davis (center, in yellow) has been organizing the PEO pancake breakfasts for the past several years. Here she heads into the breakfast crowd to fill syrup bottles. The annual fundraiser was held on Sunday morning.
A major retrospective of work by Idyllwild artist Carol Mills entitled, “Painted Feelings” opens at the Courtyard Gallery on Saturday, July 20 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. The works gathered in the exhibition span a total of 70 years — beginning with pieces done when Mills was a teenager and extending through the end…
By David JeromeCorrespondent Often these pages carry portraits of locals old and new. This week we present a conversation with a pair of “part-timers,” at least for the present. Michael Steele and his wife Cynthia, normally residents of Florida, have spent the last few weeks in Idyllwild recovering from this summer’s Baja 500, and preparing…