
Photo courtesy Kathy Lewis

Photo courtesy Leslie Schelly




Celebrating high school grads and scholastic achievements
By Idyllwild Town Crier






Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) senior Richard Watson is a songwriting major. Originally from Oakland, California, Watson attended Oakland School for the Arts from middle school through his junior year of high school before making his way to IAA to finish his high school career. While there, he studied vocal music. “It didn’t have a film…
By Stephanie YostIdyllwild Community Center Board PresidentContributed The Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) is knee-deep in planning for this year’s annual Tree Lighting Ceremony, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 30 at IdyPark. Like last year, the celebration will feature three stages with a variety of local performers as well as interactive family activities, costume characters,…
As promising as the weather prognostications materialized for the gradual relief of summertime heat over the holiday weekend — happily enough for the various yard sale promoters — the prospects for the annual Levy and Speltz families’ benefit for the Idyllwild Arts Foundation were even greater, due not only to a better event venue, just…
Quiet Creek and Strawberry Creek inns Manager Marc Kassouf was awarded General Manager of the Year (small property) by the California Hotel and Lodging Association at Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The Outstanding General Manager of the Year award honors a hotelier who has demonstrated superior professionalism in operating a…
Sergio Fernandez-Lopez and Hsing-Liang Lee perform “Raymonda Suite” Friday night at the Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Fall Dance Concert in the Bowman IAF Theatre. PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD