





Five unique Idyllwild homes featured on home tour
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Saturday the Idyllwild Historical Society held its 12th Annual Home Tour with 5 homes graciously opened to the public for viewing. This incredibly gorgeous, colorful, warm living room is full of art, musical instruments, spirituality, and personality belonging to two local artists and their artistic daughter that grace our mountain. Photo by Careena Chase






A group of veterans on the last leg of a cross-continent ride in a covered wagon spent this last weekend at Living Free’s War Horse Creek camp. The vets are drawing attention to a number of causes that help veterans deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and successfully reenter civilian life. Their mission dovetails…
The Town Crier had the opportunity to catch up with Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Jazz Faculty member Paul Carman this week. He and his students recently returned from one of the high points of their year, the trip to the Reno Jazz Festival. This tradition for jazz educators across the West is now in its…
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Hopes were high this past weekend at the Lowman Concert Hall on the Idyllwild Arts Academy campus; with the continued warm weather and clear sunshine on the Hill, a larger than usual turnout was also expected, and as it happened, the situation materialized according to the anticipatory heights. The Saturday evening orchestral concert, ably supervised…