
Local Letters to Santa
By Idyllwild Town Crier

The Art Alliance of Idyllwild is offering a free portfolio consultation service to all local students who want to make their visual portfolio professionally competitive when entering competitions, applying to Idyllwild Arts or other schools, and/or for job applications. For those applying for scholarships to Idyllwild Arts, the deadline is Jan. 17, 2018. Applicants must…
Brendan Steele posted an 8-under-par 68-67-69-72 — 276 to finish tied for 44th in The Northern Trust, the first of three FedExCup tournaments that close out the 2019-2020 PGA Tour season. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 303.8 yards while finding 69% of the fairways. He hit two-thirds of the 72 greens in regulation and gained…
The 21st Jazz in the Pines festival is history and another demonstration of the multiple talents residing on the Hill. Not only of artists and musicians, but of individuals with other talents and skills able and willing to produce a jazz fest of this stature year after year who reside here, too. “The festival was…
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast with a direct hit on New Orleans. Idyllwild resident Karla Leopold led a team of art therapists to an evacuation center just north of Baton Rouge to help Katrina survivors, many of them children, to express and externalize the trauma they had experienced…
Editor’s note: In celebration of the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s 50th anniversary, Bob Krone, son of Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (now Idyllwild Arts) founders Max and Bee Krone, wrote this article. Max and Bee Krone retired from ISOMATA leadership in the summer of 1967, 22 years after they created the Idyllwild…
Clear skies, warm days and good music were the right medication to help the Hill recover from the recent fire siege — Mountain, Strong and Silver fires …