Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert series continues its 25th anniversaryseason Thursday, July 11 with Sherry Williams and Friends, backed by anorchestra led by series founder Ken Dahleen. Next week, on the 18th,series veterans SouthBound and Company will bring their classic rocktribute, Double Shot. Sandii Castleberry and Lily McCabe will open thatshow. Sherry Williams has been part…
The June 20 meeting of the Fern Valley Water District Board of Directorswas dominated by financial actions, such as approving the fiscal year2024-25 budget, a presentation from the district’s auditor, and a visitfrom Curt Sauer, Interim general manager at Idyllwild Water District andtwo of his staff. Sauer has been with IWD since February. In his…
A week ago, it was July 4^(th.) The holiday was celebrated throughoutthe nation despite a heatwave from coast to coast. And on the Hill, the celebration set a record – a temperature record. OnJuly 4, the high temperature in Idyllwild was 98 degrees, exceeding theprevious high of 97 set in 2007. On Monday, July 8,…
The Directors of Pine Cove Water met on Wednesday, June 26, as there hadbeen no quorum on their usual date. With board members Vicki Jacubac andLou Padulla absent, three directors were present to make a quorum,President Robert Hewitt, Becky Smith, and Rose Venard. The board heardgood news about water loss figures, began discussions about replacingtheir…
With its 30th anniversary, the Jazz in the Pines Festival is ending. Thefestival has brought mainstream jazz and crossover artists, as well asregional jazz greats, to audiences who came up the hill for the day orweekend and has been the major fundraiser for scholarships to theIdyllwild Arts Academy. The festival has, in recent years, turned…
On Wednesday night, June 19, the Rustic Theater hosted a meet and greeton for Will Rollins, Democratic challenger to incumbent Ken Calvert. This will be Rollins second effort to unseat Calvert in 2022 and he camewithin 11,100 votes. Rollins invoked the future of republic, saying that because of all theissues on the ballot in November…
Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series kicks off July 4 with local jazzgiants the 3Skinz opening for rock and roll vocal quartet The Diamonds.Next week the series continues with Sherry Williams and Friends, backedup by an orchestra lead by series founder Ken Dahleen. Dahleen told the Crier that this year is the series’ 25th or “Silver”anniversary,…
Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series kicks off its 25th year ThursdayJuly 4 with the classic rock and roll vocal quartet, The Diamonds.Opening for them will be local jazz favorites, 3Skinz. Series founder Ken Dahleen has dubbed this year the series’ “SilverAnniversary” and promised “lots of surprises” in addition to bringingback audience favorites from among the…
The Rotary Club of Idyllwild wants to remind everyone in our mountaincommunities of details relating to the upcoming Independence Day parade,which will be held on Thursday, July 4th, along North Circle Drivestarting at 10:00 am. This is a decades-long Idyllwild event proudlysponsored by Rotary Club of Idyllwild, one of our most active localnon-profit service organizations. …
Zero to 209 miles in 20 days… by Holly ParsonsContributor Julia is a 17-year-old from Seattle, Washington hiking the PCT duringthe summer prior to her senior year in high school. I was her driver onseveral occasions in Idyllwild and found her thoughts refreshinglyunvarnished, colorful and succinct. She is by far the youngest PCT hikerI’ve met,…
