Piano man and arranger Keith Droste and jazz chanteuse Sherry Williams wrap the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series’ 13th edition with some sounds sweet, stirring and swinging. Chicago native Droste, Berklee School of Music graduate and Oscar Peterson student, covers all the musical bases from jazz to Dixieland to Broadway. With Williams fronting the group,…
Thursday nights concert in the park featured City Beat a contagious high energy band playing classic tunes from the 50s to the present …
From Monday, Aug. 6 through Thursday, Aug 9, Caltrans will be working on the Hwy 74 from Lake Hemet Campground to Keen Camp Maintenance Station. There will be flagging and delay between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Back at Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with its winning formula of hard-hitting horns and pulsating power blues …
If you live in the unincorporated communities in the hills above Temecula, Murrieta, and Lake Elsinore, or other Riverside County areas, such as the San Jacinto Mountains, you are located in an area designated by the state as a “State Responsibility Area” for fire protection purposes. As a result, you are likely to receive a…
The Third Annual Lemon Lily Festival was last weekend. What a success! The Festival’s popularity and reputation has grown each year. This is true of the much bigger and well known Jazz in the Pines Festival, which is on the eve of its 19th annual production. The success of these festivals and Idyllwild’s winter fest…
Gun control? No. How about criminal control? The looney in Colorado will get a trial. When convicted he’ll get an automatic appeal. Then there’ll be another and another. He’ll quite probably die of old age in prison. Instead we need to come down hard and fast on this class of criminal. One trial with a…
The Woodies are the rock stars of California fire safe councils. As the volunteer arm of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, they abate homes and cut and split firewood for those in need. People driving past the HELP Center on a Friday morning have probably noticed a very busy group of people in…
As part of new amendments to the ambulance service contract between the Idyllwild Fire Protection District and Riverside County, IFPD is required to install mobile data computers (MDC) in its vehicles within one year. The equipment must also be purchased. Third District Supervisor Jeff Stone gave the fire department $20,000 in November 2010 to help…
