By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEYStaff Writer Ianita Wagner is a 47-year Lake Arrowhead resident, having moved full-time to the mountain in 1973. She has been actively involved in the community for decades. A Sturgis, S.D., native, she moved to Monterey Park, Calif., when she...
Crestline Kooks invite you to Sunday Night Flights
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEYStaff Writer Sunday Night Flights is a free local event hosted twice a month during the summer by the Crestline Kooks, a group of friends and lighter-than-air pilots who come together every other Sunday during the summer to fly around Teddy Bear...
Dining al fresco
By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor We are fortunate to live in a community where the weather at this time of year is conducive to al fresco dining. When the governor halted dining inside restaurants recently, many restaurants on the mountain turned to their patios, decks...
Changing of the guard at Rim Forest Lumber
By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor Longevity is the name of the game at Rim Forest Lumber. Just ask Pat McCumber, the general manager. He started work there in 1976 – 44 years ago – out in the yard. Tom Baker was the owner. Butch Baumann, the current owner, was one of the...
Rescue crews save man from rock face
On July 4 at 1:38 p.m., San Bernardino County Fire crews were dispatched to the area of Hortencia’s at the Cliffhanger restaurant on Highway 18, responding to a call that a rock climber had fallen 30 feet and was injured. Crews made access in the area and found one...
Crestline celebrates 4th of July with flags
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEYStaff Writer Crestline residents were restless without Jamboree Days to celebrate on July 4th, so two different groups held their own parades through town. One was a car parade, the other a walking celebration of America’s freedoms. Both events...
Crestline’s Friday night Fresh Market returns
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEYStaff Writer Crestline’s Heritage Farmers Fresh Market returns this Friday, July 3, starting at 4:30 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. in the North Shore parking lot of Lake Gregory. The market nights will continue every Friday through Sept. 25,...
The ‘Buzz’ Brothers: Harvesting honey in the San Bernardino Mountains
By Zev BlumenfeldStaff Writer Miles down a winding paved road, past dense thickets of chaparral, where pines sparsely dot partially balding hillsides, beekeepers Juan Aguilar and his brother Ramon park their pickup truck near a clearing of stacked green and white...











