Shoppers packed Town Hall this weekend for the annual Harvest Festival. Upstairs and downstairs were filled with booths of gifts, food and raffles. A good start to the holiday shopping season for a lot of tourists and locals. Photo by Barbara Reese
Shoppers packed Town Hall this weekend for the annual Harvest Festival. Upstairs and downstairs were filled with booths of gifts, food and raffles. A good start to the holiday shopping season for a lot of tourists and locals. Photo by Barbara Reese Patricia Kilmer from the Twin Pines Auxiliary, which helps to support programs for the Youthful Offenders (YOP) Program at Twin Pines Ranch in Banning, sells gift items at Town Hall during the Harvest Festival Thanksgiving weekend. Photo by Barbara Reese A quiet stroll through Quiet Creek Gallery’s Thanksgiving weekend sale brought in tourists and locals alike. Photo by Barbara Reese Frank Bruynbroek held a book signing for his new book, “Compawssion: Portraits of Rescued Dogs,” a glossy hardcover book of 100 black-and-white photographs, at Café Aroma on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Casey Abrams performs “Nature Boy” with Marshall Hawkins and Paul Carman on Saturday night at Idyll Awhile. Photo by Halie Johnson Artist Alexandria Taylor, left, shows off her unique art that has turned from paintings into shirts, candles, lip-gloss and more. The event was held at Artspresso on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jenny Kirchner A constituent of Mayor Max shares the Tree Lighting Ceremony program with a friend. Photo by Grace Reed
The Idyllwild Historic Preservation District Review Board met with a number of property owners and renters whose properties fall within district boundaries to explain the district and the renovation permitting process. At the Sunday afternoon presentation, Riverside County Historic Preservation Officer Keith Herron reviewed Idyllwild’s history as a settlement, why and how the historic preservation…
Once again, the Idyllwild Town Crier has been recognized by its national brethren. In the 2016 National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Editorial Contest, the Town Crier received three awards for non-daily publications with circulations of less than 5,000. Jenny Kirchner, freelance photographer, earned all of those. When told, Kirchner’s reaction was, “Wow! I’m shocked.” She…
