Idyllwild News

Filmmaker Sean Owen had not heard Cahuilla bird songs before he began work on a documentary about a Cahuilla Indian performance artist who lives near Anza and sings the traditional social songs of Native Americans in Southern California.

After six weeks and much opposition, no one knows whether the state's park system will be open, closed or some other alternative after Labor Day.

Last Thursday, in what promises to be the first of several "public art" installations in Idyllwild, local sculptors Dore Capitani and Jan Jaspers-Fayer and friends installed "Girl Reading a Dickens Book" at the site of the previous Jonathan LaBenne Tree Monument on Village Center Drive.

The board of the Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild appointed a new director to replace outgoing Director Leslie Morgan.

Laurel Garza of Lomita with her heirloom tomato business. She sells about 150 varieties, mostly through internet sales.

When desert denizens think of cool places to which they can trek, thoughts take us to Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead and Idyllwild.

David Jerome is obsessed. He has beast on the mind. Idyllbeast, to be precise. He is hoping that the reported 98th-annual Idyllbeast Festival, to be held at Caf Aroma from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 4, may lure the curious, but famously shy, hairy, apelike bipedal hominoid to the bistro environs.

Theresa Ann Venable, 42, of Idyllwild, who was severely injured in a head-on collision at 8:55 p.m. Thursday, June 25, is still hospitalized at Desert Regional Medical Center while being treated for injuries that include a shattered kneecap, 10 broken ribs and a fractured pelvis.

For children getting picked up by camp buses from Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House on Friday afternoon, the annual ritual of summer camp is even more special.

The Pony Express Trading Post, which has been a part of the Idyllwild community for the past five years, found a second home in downtown Palm Springs in September 2008.

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to swing and jitterbug as Ken Dahleen and his Big Band Staff open the 10th anniversary edition of the Idyllwild Summer Community Concert Series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2, at the Idyllwild Community Center site.

The Pine Cove Water District finally expressed its frustration with the Mt. San Jacinto Water Study Agency .

News Editor The Valley Health System directors approved a new labor agreement with the Service Employees Union International - United Healthcare Workers .

Idyllwild Community Recreation Center head Chris Singer made it clear at the June 11 board meeting that the Idyllwild Community Center project is one that deserves a separate managerial committee with decision making authority, apart from but reporting to the ICRC board.

My hiking partner had a sprained ankle, a new stent in his heart, and was still putting me to shame up this mountain.

A former Riverside County resident who portrays himself as Al Qaeda's American spokesman surfaced in a video distributed on the Internet this weekend in which he blasts President Obama, the Israeli prime minister, and his own Jewish grandfather, it was reported today.

IDYLLWILD, CA, 6/10/09 This month, artists in Idyllwild will take to the hills for the Art Alliance of Idyllwild's Annual Plein Air Festival.

Ken Dahleen, Idyllwild Summer Community Concert Series producer, received county approval to stage the 10th-annual event at the site of the Idyllwild Community Center .

Coachella Valley residents may wake up today to cloudy skies and cooler temperatures that will last through the rest of the week.

Gloria Ayala is comforted by her husband Tim Ayala as she clutches her son's Daniel Hoover-Najera U.S. Forest Service helmet during the U.S. Forest Service Engine 57 memorial at the Glen Helen Hyundai Pavilion on November 5, 2006 in Devore, California.