
Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Photo by Genevieve Freeman

PHOTOS: Last week in Idyllwild
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Author Dete Meserve asks in her novel “Good Sam” (Melrose Hill, 2014) whether acts of kindness would ever make the nightly news or front pages of print media. “We are constantly bombarded with stories about senseless murders, natural disasters, tragic accidents, massive fraud and the dark side of the American dream,” she notes on her…
Events planned throughout the next year The 100th anniversary of the opening of the Idyllwild Library will be July 27, 2020. In anticipation, the library and Friends of the Library have planned a one-year celebration of events beginning at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27 in Idypark. The Friends of the Idyllwild Library and Librarian Shannon…
The winter rains caused local highway closures, which have now caused the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild to cancel its annual Brewfest. The Brewfest is ARF’s largest fundraiser each year, but conditions were too difficult for success this year. Plans are already underway for the next Brewfest on June 6, 2020. However, the homebrew contest…
Idyllwild resident and art therapist Karla Leopold went to Louisiana in 2005 shortly after Hurricane Katrina had devastated New Orleans. With the assistance of Rosie O’Donnell’s “Project Katrina,” Leopold led a team of art therapists to an evacuation center north of Baton Rouge. Their mission was to use art to help survivors process the emotional…
The Hill received more rain early last week and some this Sunday. The total rainfall recorded at the U.S. Forest Service’s Keenwild Guard Station was slightly more than three-quarters of an inch. In Pine Cove, nearly an inch of rain was recorded. At Keenwild, the total rainfall since July 1 has been almost 2.9 inches…
The Idyllwild Historic Preservation District board approved its first plans for renovation of a structure within district boundaries — Ferro, the new restaurant that will occupy the building previously home to Hidden Village Chinese Restaurant at 25840 Cedar Street. Last week, the board reviewed design plans and examples of materials and colors to be used…