Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his State Fire Chief and emergencydirector gave a briefing on the State’s preparation and readiness forthe current fire season. The setting was Cal Fire’s McClellan Air TankerBase in Sacramento. “The last couple years brought welcome relief for California as we sawhistorically low levels of wildfire,” Newsom began. “This season…
Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series continues its 25th Anniversaryseason on Thursday, July 18, with SouthBound and Company’s Classic RockDouble Shot. Locals Sandy Castleberry and Lily McCabe will open theshow. Next week, on the 25th, Sharon Owens performs as Barbra Streisand,backed up by Ken Dahleen’s Big Band Staff, who will also open that show. SouthBound and…
The Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks held their annualLemon Lily Festival at the Nature Center on Saturday, July 13. Thismonth’s record-breaking heat wave meant an early blooming season, andfewer human visitors to the event. Those who made it enjoyed crafts andgames for kids, a story walk, free face painting and “bounce house,”…
Sammy Busby offers acting classes at Hilltop Music and Acting Studio foradults and teens. He is calling his enterprise SHB Acting Studio, usinghis initials and making a nod to his training at New York City’s HBStudio with Uta Hagan, whose book A Challenge for the Actor will be thetext for the classes. The classes will…
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…
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…
