The California measles outbreak that began in December 2014 is over, Dr. Karen Smith, director of the California Department of Public Health and state health officer, announced Friday, April 17. However Senate Bill 277, which would eliminate the personal-belief exemption currently allowing parents to opt their child out of vaccines, encountered significant opposition last week…
Stage, television and motion picture costumer and fashion designer Noelle Raffy is the next speaker for the popular Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. She will discuss and illustrate “Costume Design From Creation Concept to Screen and Stage.” “I grew up as a backstage baby,” said Raffy. Both parents danced professionally — her father, Patrick Frantz,…
If you’re looking for comfort food, a good “loosey goosey” time, Vicki Streeter advises joining Lucy and Ethel at the Idyllwild HELP Center Vintage Fashion Show and Collectibles Auction. “It’s a ’50s theme so we can be a little irreverent,” said Streeter, coordinator for the event. Streeter could not confirm if either Lucy or Ethel…
Biblical scholars argue over the exact location and duration of the parting of the Red Sea. But for artist David Reid-Marr, it has taken more than three years in his studio and it is still not done. Longtime Idyllwild Arts Visual Arts faculty member, Reid-Marr’s 5-foot-by-15-foot pen-and-ink drawing of the “Parting of the Red…
Obituary Lasca Jane Wilcox Terhorst 1920-2015 Lasca Jane Wilcox Terhorst, 94, of Idyllwild, passed away peacefully at her home Wednesday, March 11, 2015, with loved ones present. A celebration of her life will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 9, in Idyllwild with the Rev. Dr. Betty Jandl officiating at the Idyllwild Spiritual Living…
The U.S. Forest Service is in search of the San Bernardino flying squirrel. If you have information on this missing, threatened or endangered species, the Forest Service would like to hear from you. In August 2010, the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting it to list…
On Sunday, April 19, Idyllwild resident David Jerome, 51, was driving west on Highway 74 in his 2002 gray Honda Accord when Hemet resident Michael Hernandez, 48, driving a 1999 Dodge Ram truck east on 74, lost control slammed into the front left of Jerome’s vehicle. The collision happened at 3:30 p.m. nine-tenths of a…
Idyllwild Fire is telling us that the smoke you smell and see in the air is blowing in from the Camp Pendleton area.
Alphonso Nguyen, 34, of Garden Grove was found safe at about 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, after calling 911 the previous Saturday at about 4:15 p.m. from his dying cell phone. Nguyen was found with just cuts and bruises and some dehydration near Azalea Girl Scout Camp on Dark Canyon Road, said Sgt. Lawler…
