
Photo by John Drake
Photo: Autumn Equinox celebration
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Michael Madrigal leads the ceremony celebrating the Autumnal Equinox in the gardens of Spirit Mountain Retreat. Among the crowd of Idyllwild locals was the featured choral local group Local Color (sitting).

The Town Hall team and nine Forest Friends preschoolers went to the Riverside County Date Festival in Indio on Thursday, Feb. 23. Here the children are pictured enjoying the seals.
Receives award on U.S.S. Midway Jazzercise founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett experienced two major career moments in one week in early October. Sheppard Missett, part-time Pine Cove resident, joined 1,180 Jazzercise instructors and customers from as far away as Japan on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego on Saturday, Oct….
By Idyllwild Community GardenContributed Renown Idyllwild forest garden expert Peter Kindfield will teach three classes over three Saturdays in August from 9 to 10 a.m. beginning this Saturday, Aug. 7. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to learn how to ‘Garden Like the Forest.”Topics will include the composition of healthy soil, how forests recycle nutrients through…
A hike through the woods was a key part of this weekend’s Junior Naturalist Program series at the Idyllwild Nature Center. Titled “Seeing is Believing,” the Saturday, Aug. 27 program taught youngsters to look for minute details in everything they see.
American Legion Post 800 hosted five service vets hiking the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail as part of the “Warrior Hike — Walk off the War” program. The Warrior Hike, now conducted on three long-distance national scenic trails and three shorter trails in Wisconsin, Florida and Arizona, offers returning combat veterans a chance to…
In the higher regions of Idyllwild and Pine Cove, a light dusting of snow still covers the ground just days before Christmas – an unexpected present following last Friday’s heavy rainfall. As it does especially in the cool winter air, the mountain sparkles with sunlight dappling its pines during brilliantly clear days and smoke from…