
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Jim CrandallPPGA Correspondent Two Idyllwild golfers, Paul Cozens and Chris Kramer, members of the local Palms to Pines Golf Association, rose above the rest throughout the 2021-22 season to become club champions and qualify for the Southern California Golf Association’s (SCGA) Tournament of Club Champions (TCC) this past December. The SCGA’s TCC is a huge…
This week Idyllwild Arts (IA) Summer Programs presents its annual Native American Arts Festival, an institution-within-the-institution for more than 20 years, returning after a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shaliyah J. Ben, director of the IA Native American Arts program and coordinator of the festival, gave the Crier some background on this year’s festival. She…
For the fourth year, the Idyllwild Library is holding a Children’s Film Festival in conjunction with the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. This year, mirroring the extended IIFC screening schedule, the Children’s Festival will be held on two weekends rather than one — from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 and 14, in the…
A circle of women gathered, dancing to the heartbeat of the Mother, on Saturday at Spirit Mountain Retreat to celebrate in sacred ceremony the Autumn Equinox and International Peace Day. Esther Kennedy, director of the center, leading the Sacred Circle Dance for Peace in the Mideastern dance “Misirlou.”
The Town Crier’s Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award 2016 contest is over and though all three sets of nominees — Jerry Holldber, Janet Murasko/Robert Hewitt and Christina Nordella — received numerous votes, the overwhelming victors were Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild volunteers Murasko and Hewitt. The two have stood at the helm of Animal Rescue…
It’s mystifying when the forces of nature come together to create a dynamic whose time has come. Women moving into self-determination on a global scale is one such example. The emergence of Germany’s Leica Camera Company resulting in “the Freedom Train” during WWII, establishing a progressive culture for more than 100 years, is another. As…