Marcie Curcie is beginning her second year of teaching, her first at Idyllwild Middle School, as math/electives teacher. But because her husband was active duty in the Marines, she worked in accounting and began to raise her three boys before turning to teaching. The Menifee resident received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and minor in…
By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier Last month, two Idyllwild mothers were running a marathon in Yellowstone National Park. “We started talking about a classmate of one of our boys who has Medulloblastoma or cancerous brain tumors,” said Cheryl Vladika. The other runner, Myla Davis, had just told her about James Bachmann, 12,…
For Kathleen O’Boyle Walker, soon to star in Stratford Players’ “The Lion in Winter,” acting was the beginning — of everything. “In school I was very shy,” she recalled. “There were problems at home and I just went into a shell.” And as it has been with many artists, personal demons and difficulties can be…
The Idyllwild Community Park is active every week, especially during the summer with a weekly concert series. With the playground, par course, pickle ball court and paths, the site provides opportunities to the community and visitors year round. More is coming and the Idyllwild Community Center board will soon be announcing the next step, “Let’s…
Erica Dillon, wife of fourth-grade teacher Tom Dillon, joins the Idyllwild Elementary School faculty as kindergarten and transitional kindergarten teacher. Dillon taught kindergarten at Ramona Elementary School in Hemet, also part of the Hemet Unified School District, for 11 years. Both Erica and Tom recently moved to Idyllwild from Hemet, given their unified teaching assignments…
Saturday morning from 10:30 a.m., then 10:45 and finally at 11 a.m., the three venues for the 22nd Jazz in the Pines will come to life with exciting, bold and attention-grabbing sounds. The Euphoria Brass Band will be the first, their horns sharing a special “N’awlins” sound with the attendees at the French Quarter. Fifteen…
Jazz in the Pines weekend begins Friday with the delicious and entertaining Patrons Dinner. On Saturday and Sunday, Strawberry Valley is subsumed in clouds of wonderful and special music — jazz, a truly American genre. This year, the 22nd Jazz in the Pines also introduces something new, but not the performers. In 2015, Idyllwild Arts…
THURSDAY 8:59 a.m. UPDATE: Updated mapping shows the Anza Fire at 450 acres and now 80 percent contained. WEDNESDAY 10:30 a.m. UPDATE: Updated mapping shows the Anza Fire at 450 acres and still 50 percent contained. TUESDAY 5:37 p.m. UPDATE: Incident Command now officially estimates the containment of the Anza fire at 50 percent. 2:20…
At 11:42 a.m. Monday, California Highway Patrol reported a motor home with smoke coming out of its engine 3 miles east of Highway 371 on the roadside of Highway 74. U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire engines and personnel were dispatched about noon and arrived on scene to a vegetation fire about a quarter of…
The expected hearing to certify a class-action suit over the legality of the 2012 State Responsibility Area Fire Fee was canceled before it started. On Thursday, Aug. 6, Judge Shelleyanne Chang of the Sacramento Superior Court issued a tentative ruling, both affirming and denying the request for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to certify the…
