

Photo by John Drake





Photo courtesy Idyllwild Library

Photo by John Drake


Photo courtesy Annamarie Padula

Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photos by Peter Szabadi


Photo by Tom Kluzak



Photo by Peter Szabadi

Photo by Peter Szabadi
PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: May 4, 2017
By Idyllwild Town Crier


















After the Harmony Monument sign was damaged last year, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild commissioned David Roy to design and install a new one. Roy is the artist who created the monument. Harmony is a wooden sculpture that weighs 5 tons and towers 25 feet over Idyllwild’s village center. Roy has lived in Idyllwild off…
Idyllwild Arts Technical Director and Theatre faculty member Todd Carpenter had said prior to beginning the 860-mile Race Across the West that his goal was to finish. He did considerably better than that, finishing first in the solo (not team) under-50 age division and second overall. Thirty-two racers competed in the RAW solo category…
Idyllwild’s Jewish Temple Har Shalom (Mountain of Peace) celebrated its second Hanukkah as an Idyllwild congregation festively and inclusively. Of all the Jewish holidays, Hanukkah may be the most familiar to Christians because of its proximity to and occasional overlap with Christmas. Other similarities include the exchange of gifts, special meals, games and decorations, and…
The Mount San Jacinto College Foundation will host its fourth annual gala “An Evening With Our Stars” 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula. This year’s event features the artwork of MSJC students, spanning from digital photography to sculpture. The evening is a fundraiser to provide student scholarships, faculty grants…
By Hemet Unified School DistrictContributed Cassidy Steenbock, Career Technical Education (CTE) instructor at Hemet High School, found a creative way to engage students enrolled in Introduction to Agricultural Mechanics with a hands-on bird feeder construction project administered in partnership with The Home Depot of Hemet. The entire assignment was executed at no-cost to students, thanks…
Dr. Marja Kay developed many areas of expertise in her youth – 17 years of dance classes starting at 3, piano beginning at 6, singing and acting in theatre in high school, and all-around academic proficiency with particular strength in math. She performed well in all areas and always hit her marks. “I had always…