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Idyllwild resident Holly Braaten entered her homemade jams, pickles, salsa’s and baked goods to the Home Arts Department Food Competition at the Southern California Fair in Perris, CA. Braaten walked away with an astonishing 21 first place awards, nine second place awards and three first place gift basket awards. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Seventeen Idyllwild and Pine Cove residents took advantage of free county transportation to the Mission Inn’s Festival of Lights in Riverside on Saturday, Jan. 7. The outing, suggested by the Forest Folk committee of active older adults and provided courtesy of Town Hall Recreation, began at 2 p.m. from Town Hall and returned all attendees…
Monica Eileen Smith, daughter of Bob and Adele Smith of Idyllwild, passed the California State Bar exam and was sworn in recently by Northern California District Judge Edward J. Davila. She graduated from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco in 2013 and lives in Mountain View with her husband and two children. A frequent…
The Town Crier has been unable to capture a photograph of this year’s winners of the Town Crier’s annual snow guessing contest. The winners voted the correct date of Dec. 12, 2022, at Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery. Their names were picked from a hat. The winners are Bernie Hoffinger and Jill Murphy. Sadly, Murphy…
Matt Lutz shot a 4-under-par 68 in the final round of the Tucson NCAA Regional in Marana, Arizona, to finish third and advance to the NCAA Championships, May 27 to June 1 in Eugene, Oregon. Lutz is the grandson of Ralph Lewis, who owned a cabin in Idyllwild for some 40 years. He also is…
Nominated for two Hollywood Music in Media awards, local composer Peter Davison had planned to go the Nov. 15 event. In an earlier interview he stated that once moving to Idyllwild last fall he hated leaving the Hill. “It was an honor to be nominated amongst such talented composers, but I’ve done so much glitz…
Maureen McElligott of Idyllwild reently completed a master’s degree in Consciousness Studies at Holmes Institute in Goldon, Colorado. She is now a licensed minister with Centers for Spiritual Living.