By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The newly elected members of the Crestline Chamber of Commerce board of directors will be introduced to the community at their first public board meeting of the new year on the third Tuesday of January. Jan. 21, at 5:30 p.m....
Greed won’t sell your house
The house across the street from me is on its fifth listing in 15 months. It’s a well-built home with rare features for our area: front and back yards, a spacious layout, high-end finishes, a garage and parking for at least four cars. I knew the original owners who...
Unraveling the Mystery of the Mountain Power Outage
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor With all the speculation on Facebook about why the power went out on the mountain at 3:47 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9 – and the grumbling about it – I reached out to Southern California Edison for some answers. Yes, we had all been...
LET’S GO HIKING – Metate Trail
By TIM WILCOX Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Where: Lake Arrowhead Length: 2.3 miles (with alternative return leg) Elevation gain: 112 feet (final stretch of outgoing leg) Challenge: easy to moderate The far northwestern quadrant of greater Lake...
Empowering students with words
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Each year the Rotary Clubs on the mountain and Soroptimist International of Rim of the World distribute dictionaries to the mountain’s third-graders and thesauruses to the fifth-graders. On Wednesday, Jan. 8, members of the Crestline-Lake...
Rotary Clubs looking for high school speakers
The three Rotary Clubs in the Rim communities – Crestline-Lake Gregory, Lake Arrowhead and Mountain Sunrise – encourage high school students to enter their speech contests held early in February. Speeches must be five to eight minutes long and based on Rotary...
Arts & Entertainment Guide
CRESTLINE THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 Karaoke with Kimberly Drum 7-9pm Rim of the World Sports Bar (909-338-0557) (facebook.com/Rimoftheworld sportsbarlll) Karaoke 9pm-late Bear Claw Saloon (thebearclawsaloon.com) FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 Karaoke with Kimberly Drum...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Cookies
January and February are my favorite months of the year. Why? you ask. Thank you, I’m glad you asked. Well, it’s because Girl Scouts all over the fruited plain will begin selling their sweet, delicious Girl Scout cookies on Jan. 26. But you better hurry, because they...










