Idyllwild’s Temple Har Shalom is pleased to announce the appointment of Malka Drucker as its new rabbi. Rabbi Malka, as she asks her congregants to call her, returned to Idyllwild from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is the founding rabbi and rabbi emerita of HaMakom: “The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism.” “What I…

Travel Weekly and TravelAge West recently announced that Bob Romano of Idyllwild and Riverside was selected from among hundreds of applicants to attend the fifth-annual Global Travel Marketplace, which took place at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 9 to 11. GTM is a two-and-a-half day appointment-only event for top-producing travel advisors…

Hemet High School senior Danika Hitchcock advanced the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Finals in the triple jump. At the May 11, Southern Section prelims, she finished fourth in the triple jump and 27th in the long jump.

Danielle McKnight, Hemet High School 2011 graduate, will enroll Thursday morning, June 28, as a member of the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2016, is majoring in marine engineering technology.

Dr. Richard MacNeal, a co-founder of MSC Software and former Garner Valley resident, died at age 94 on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.  A one-hour memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at Lake Avenue Church, 393 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena. MacNeal was important in the history of Idyllwild Arts, especially during the…