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Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans 2017
By Idyllwild Town Crier



Principal Matt Kraemer will be retiring at the end of June and handing over the job to current Idyllwild School sixth grade teacher Nicole Picchiottino. The newspaper ran a front-page story on her last week. Kraemer was with the Hemet Unified School District for 24 years. He was a teacher in Yuma, Arizona for 15…
Idyllwild local Donna Elliot sat down with me in the Courtyard Gallery to talk about her life and the adventures she’s taken over the years. While many know her for her art and being so active in smARTS and the Art Alliance of Idyllwild, art wasn’t always a big part of her life. Elliot has…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild will host a community potluck just for the fun of it. With the tagline, “The community that eats together stays together,” the event is open to the community and free to all. Noted the Alliance website, “Art is often a reflection of life, and what better way to inspire art…
By Idyllwild Arts AcademyContributed The publication this month of Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) twelfth-grader Rome Smaoui’s short story, “Days of Summer,” in Narrative (www.narrativemagazine.com/) is a startling achievement for a high school student. Narrative is a top-tier literary journal and it is free to register. The number of Narrative pieces appearing annually in the prestigious…
Filmmaker Jennifer Kramer’s entry in this year’s Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) has a connection to Idyllwild, having been filmed here. Nominated in eight categories, the film showcases Kramer’s versatility as auteur: writing, directing, acting, composing and performing the score. Although passed over by this year’s judges, Kramer said, “just being nominated in eight…
King of the Cage, an internationally broadcast Mixed Martial Arts company, is returning to Soboba Casino in San Jacinto on Sunday, March 15. In a broadcast event in the 10,000-seat Soboba Arena. In 2008, after 43 events and eight years of watching both Soboba Casino and King of the Cage grow as companies together, it…