

PHOTO S BY PETER SZABADI
Music for Maui fundraiser
By Idyllwild Town Crier



With the initial formation of Idyllwild Indivisibles’ environmental committee, Melanie Lamaga, Dr. Joan McCullough, Karen Johnston and Mallory Cremin became community leaders for climate change. However, it didn’t take long to realize the overwhelming nature of their call to action. Lamaga began researching. “I picked CCL because of their bi-partisan support in Congress, their market-friendly,…
Brendan Steele posted a 7-over-par 72-71-75-69 — 287 on a very tough Olympia Fields course to tie for 33rd in the BMW, the second of the three season-ending FedExCup tournaments. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 324 yards while they found 37.5% of the narrow fairways. He hit 57% of the greens in regulation and played…
If Idyllwild is a top-100 art town, Richelle Gribble, raised in Idyllwild, is the poised and precocious product of that milieu. At 24, she stands on the cusp of becoming a major voice in art and social entrepreneurship. A 2009 graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy, Gribble received the Richard H. MacNeal Award for Outstanding Graduating…
Molly Cozens, president of the local Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) chapter, heard in August that the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree was coming from Eureka. “… there was a suggestion to send handmade ornaments, with a suggestion they be made of natural resources from our state,” she said. The PEO requisitioned Denise Van Herpen of The…