Nicole Picchiottino returns to her K-6 alma mater Nicole (Hoffman) Picchiottino, along with other first- and second-grade students at Idyllwild School, used to slide her lunchbox down the long hall from the cafeteria to the kindergarten classroom to see whose could go farther. “I’m sure I won occasionally,” said Picchiottino. “I’m very competitive.” The game…

Dr. Peter Bryant, research professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, is the next guest speaker in the Idyllwild Community Center’s Speaker Series, and he is fond of and a great admirer of spiders, both for their building skills and their usefulness within terrestrial food webs. He noted that spiders are efficient controllers…