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This male Lazuli Bunting drinks at a Mountain Center pond near the kitchen window. “A bright patch of blue brightened our day,” wrote Doris Lombard. “James Reserve records show this bird is rarely seen up here.” Photo by Doris Jean Lombard

Besides great jazz, Bubba Jackson, artistic consultant for the 2012 Jazz in the Pines Festival, promises a two-day immersion in a jazz seminar …
Award-winning author Samantha Dunn (right) was this week’s speaker at Eduardo Santiago’s (left) Idyllwild Author Series Sunday afternoon …
Two baby bald eagles — four weeks old — were introduced to humans last week.
The 2014 Jazz in the Pines will be familiar to long-time aficionados of local and straight-ahead jazz. Last week, Anne Erikson, president of the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, announced the chairs for the August 2014 event — the 21st Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines. She and her associates colleague Pam Goldwasser will be…
Friends of the San Jacinto Valley Wildlife Biologist Tom Paulek and avid birder Rosedith Marx will lead the public on a search of the San Jacinto Wildlife Area for “Birds of Prey,” from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 22. The Friends of the San Jacinto Valley are sponsoring the free event that hopes to…