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Photo by Thom Wallace

Photo by Thom Wallace

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PHOTOS: This week in photos – March 23, 2017
By Idyllwild Town Crier







Brian Smith, the father of Wildcats’ team member Adam Smith, gave this update on Adam’s recent game. Last week, the age 14-and-under Wildcats faced off against the higher-level AA Lady Ducks in a pre-season exhibition game in Orange County. The Lady Ducks started the scoring about six minutes into the first period. They scored their second…
Spirit Mountain Retreat’s annual Winter Solstice Celebration is at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19, at St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church. The local women’s a cappella group Local Color will perform. All ages are welcome and bringing finger food is appreciated for after the celebration. Friends of the Idyllwild Library is sponsoring a holiday open house to…
Tatyana Kut is one of the new teachers coming into Idyllwild School this fall. A long-time resident of Hemet, Kut has been in the community for 23 years. Originally from Ukraine, Kut moved to Hemet with her family when she was 10 1/2 years old. Neither she nor her parents spoke English. She depended on…
Preston Atkins, 16, a senior bassoonist at Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) who hails from Cedar Falls, Iowa, is preparing for a number of concerto competitions. His bassoon teacher, Martin Kuuskmann, is professor of bassoon at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, making the trek to Idyllwild once a month to work with IAA’s…
Four Hill couples will be putting their knowledge of their spouses on the line. The “Not So Newlywed Game” will be a fun fundraiser to benefit the new Idyllwild Community Center. The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Town Hall, and it will be emceed by Idyllwild’s own stage/film/television…
By Cineflix ProductionsContributed Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and their team are excited to return to California. They plan to film episodes of the hit series American Pickers throughout the area in December. While we plan to be in California this December, we will continue to reschedule if conditions change for the worse. Regardless, we are…