Travel Weekly and TravelAge West recently announced that Bob Romano of Idyllwild and Riverside was selected from among hundreds of applicants to attend the fifth-annual Global Travel Marketplace, which took place at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 9 to 11. GTM is a two-and-a-half day appointment-only event for top-producing travel advisors…

Pine Cove resident and Idyllwild Town Crier Correspondent Debra A. Varnado has been awarded an all-expenses-paid 2019 California Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. Each year, the center trains competitively selected professional journalists to participate in workshops, seminars and field trips, and to receive a stipend to defray costs associated with an…

Zachary Lattin, of Idyllwild, received Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, cum laude, from the LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. LeTourneau University held Spring 2019 commencement services recently for omore than 400 graduates who received bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Cum laude graduates maintained a GPA between 3.40 and 3.59 …

James and Michelle Wiesen of Idyllwild are holding a four-man scramble golf tournament as a cancer fundraiser for Idyllwild School Office Manager Beth Swanson and former Idyllwild School student Emma Salter. Participants are asked to create their own teams. Prizes, raffles and lunch are included in the $40-per-player cost. The event begins at 8 a.m….

The Music Center named 110 of Southern California’s most talented high school students as semifinalists in The Music Center’s 31st-annual Spotlight (Spotlight) program, a free nationally-acclaimed scholarship and arts training program for teens. An important part of The Music Center’s fundamental support for arts education, Spotlight is more than a competition. The program provides Southern…