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Dr. Peter Bryant, research professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, is the next guest speaker in the Idyllwild Community Center’s Speaker Series, and he is fond of and a great admirer of spiders, both for their building skills and their usefulness within terrestrial food webs. He noted that spiders are efficient controllers…
The iconic “Ramona” pageant has been re-written. Local resident Stephen Savage, who assumed the role of executive creative director for Hemet’s Ramona Bowl Amphitheatre in June, has revised the historic script, submitted it to the state, scheduled a premiere reading, and maintains the pageant’s unique place in the state as “The California State Outdoor Play.”…
Max and the Wild Things (a.k.a. Jacob, Evelyn and Theresa Teel) were popular parade-goers this year.
American Legion Post 800 in Idyllwild observes Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Originally called Armistice Day, it celebrated the end of hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, in “The Great War” or “The War to End All Wars.” The optimism generated in 1918 by the signing of an armistice proved short lived. Twenty-one years…
Mary Morse, the new director of Idyllwild’s Spirit Mountain Retreat, stresses that the center is non-denominational and a place for personal discovery and renewal for men and women of all beliefs and practices. “It is a place for people to get in touch with who they are, a place to find that their personal story…
“From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!” (Traditional Scottish prayer) The word “Halloween” dates from around 1745 and comes from a Scottish term for the evening before the Christian celebration of All Hallows Day, a time in the year dedicated to remembering the…
Soroptimist International of Idyllwild served more than 200 free spaghetti dinners at its 36th annual Basket Festival. Soroptimist members sold tickets for chances to win one of nine baskets this year and the drawing is held after members serve up plates of homemade spaghetti to the community. The baskets’ items and most of the…
Written and performed in1622 and first printed in 1653, “The Changeling,” is a joint effort between John Middleton (a protégé of William Shakespeare and co- writer and adapter of some of Shakespeare’s plays) and William Rowley (a collaborator/playwright best known as an actor) and is considered one of the best tragedies of the Jacobean period…
HOT DOG! Dakota (center) and owner Danny Richardson approach the judges to get their first-place prize Saturday during the Harvest Festival Halloween dog costume contest in Village Lane.
