Mountain Center News

Christine learns that Ritchie is a school bully, and the discovery leads her to apologize to the woman she bullied in junior-high school.

A 16-year-old girl was killed and four others injured when the Mustang they were in veered out of control, hit a parked pickup and flipped Sunday in Desert Hot Springs.

Nadia Gonzalez says her brother, Raul Gonzalez is lucky to be alive. He was in the car and good friends with 17-year-old Lisel J. Wiedemann who was killed in Sunday night's car accident.

One teenager was killed this weekend and four others badly hurt when the car they were in crashed on Highway 74 off Carrizo Road in Pinyon Pines, south of Palm Desert.

Summer camp gets all the attention. But the outdoor education camp that happens during the school year is what leaves a lasting impression.

Timothy Leary and his wife, Rosemary Woodruff near their ranch in Mountain Center, California, on May 19, 1969 Perhaps the most surreal operation the Weather Underground ever carried out also involved a collaboration with the Black Panthers and a Laguna Beach-based band of acid-dropping hippie hash smugglers known as the Brotherhood of Eternal ...

A three-day "Beginner's Mind" retreat will be held Sept. 11-13 at Great Tree Zen Temple, led by Rev.

The 16th-annual Jazz in the Pines finished well after 6 p.m. Sunday. That was when the Henry Franklin Quartet finally satiated an ardent and avid audience in the Stephens Recital Hall.

According to local authorities, the Cottonwood Fire currently poses no threat to the village of Idyllwild or Idyllwild Arts Academy.

The fire, which started shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday about 10 miles east of Hemet, may be fully contained sometime Monday.

Hundreds of worried Idyllwild residents packed a school gymnasium Friday night to hear that firefighters have held the 2,200-acre Cottonwood Fire in check, at least for now.

A fire that broke out east of Hemet at about 515pm has burned over 600 acres and the cause of the blaze is under investigation.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center practitioners and chefs Dale and Melissa Kent have moved to garden and cook in the shadows of the Sierras, but not without leaving us a thick reminder that "preparing food can be a spiritual practice" with the recently released Tassajara: Dinners and Desserts .

In the midst of today's uncertainty, many people are looking for ways to relieve stress and re-focus their spirits for whatever the future brings.

IDYLLWILD, CA What's more appropriate for a California summer than a road trip? And what better way to end a road trip than by finding treasure at your destination? The Art Alliance of Idyllwild has planned an event that will delight road trippers and treasure hunters alike the Art Alliance of Idyllwild's Annual Treasure Hunt and Gallery Walk.

IDYLLWILD, CA What's more appropriate for a California summer than a road trip? And what better way to end a road trip than by finding treasure at your destination? The Art Alliance of Idyllwild has planned an event that will delight road trippers and treasure hunters alike the Art Alliance of Idyllwild's Annual Treasure Hunt and Gallery Walk.

Edgar A. Santiago is the new kennel supervisor at Living Free Animal Sanctuary in Mountain Center.

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.