By Becky and Jack Clark Co-publishers Along with a Membership application, we received a short note from Peter Buerkle describing himself as “your longest continuous subscriber – 1946,” the year of the TC’s first issue. That would seem to make him quite young when he subscribed. But perhaps he is nearly a nonagenarian, and if…

Idyllwild Community Center President Stephanie Yost reported recently that one of the seating tiers in the amphitheater is crumbling but the repair will be done after the Summer Concert Series.“The Amphitheater itself is fine, as is all of the work that ICC did during the 2020 COVID shutdown (i.e., adding 10 additional tiers, fixing up…

Edison restores power Many local residents found flickering lights and slow fans Friday afternoon, June 30. In some houses, the power in only one room had died, but not the entire house. Southern California Edison confirmed reports of brownouts throughout Idyllwild last week. “We started getting calls about 4:35 p.m.,” said Mary Ann Milbourne of…

Bill and Carolyn to leave for Salzburg posting … Former Idyllwild Arts CEO and headmaster Bill Lowman is the new director of the University of Redlands (Redlands), Salzburg (Austria) Program. Lowman and his wife Carolyn leave in May for a month in Berlin for intensive German study at the Goethe Institute, and for a 2-year…