Plein air
Artists take it outside
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Governor revises 2014-15 state budget: Medi-Cal and education major beneficiaries
Gov. Edmund G. Brown released his revised budget request for fiscal year 2014-15 that begins July 1. Health care and debt retirement remain high priorities in Brown’s proposal. This action follows on his agreement with legislative leaders to modify the criteria and use of a Rainy Day Fund that will appear on the November ballot….
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Historic District Board presents tutorial to public
The Idyllwild Historic Preservation District Review Board met with a number of property owners and renters whose properties fall within district boundaries to explain the district and the renovation permitting process. At the Sunday afternoon presentation, Riverside County Historic Preservation Officer Keith Herron reviewed Idyllwild’s history as a settlement, why and how the historic preservation…
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Mountain Folk: June 5, 2014
Karina Li, the daughter of Anna-Karin Li of Idyllwild, graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota on Saturday, May 17, with a liberal arts degree in biology. Li is a graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy. Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 2,011 students … …
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Sports: Palms to Pines Golf
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, May 16, golf tournament at the Palm Desert Resort Country Club. It was a hot spring day in the desert, with temperatures climbing to about 107 degrees. The course was in great shape. John LoGiudice (course handicap 24) took first…
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Readers write: Vacation homes near residents …
Editor: To all residents and their agents who rent out weekend homes here in Idyllwild: Can you please impress upon your clients that people live all around the homes you are renting and their privacy should be respected? As I write, some weekend renters in the home above us are playing music as loud as…
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Fire and Forest: Need public on GSOB …
We had a wonderful Goldspotted oak borer kick-off lunch this past Friday. The Fire Safe Council, with fantastic (and delicious) help from the Pine Cove Water District, sponsored a beautiful outdoor lunch behind the Mountain Resource Center to thank the volunteers who search the community for trees the Goldspotted oak borer infects. In addition to…
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Teacher Lenore Sazer retires from Idyllwild School
“In my 33 years of education, Lenore [Sazer] is one of the very best teachers, if not the best, I’ve ever had the privilege to work with,” Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer wrote in an email. Sazer, after 24 years of teaching and serving the Hill, retired last week. She has no immediate grand plans….
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Out Loud: Our new space …
Oh joy, oh joy, the move-in is over, the organizing is not yet, but the space we now have at the new TC building affords the opportunity to unpack without tripping over boxes. We have pictures and all those awards to hang, technical and electrical glitches still here and there, but most importantly, the signage….
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