By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Rim of the World Masonic Lodge # 711 held its 75th annual installation of officers at the Masonic Center in Twin Peaks on Dec. 27, the date for the Feast of St. John, which they celebrated after the installation ceremony. Since the...
Youth orchestra performs inaugural concert
While cameras have, in years past, been verboten in orchestral settings, video and still cameras were running nonstop at the inaugural performance of the San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra on Sunday, Dec. 15. At this highly anticipated opening of the region’s...
California’s AB 2424: A lifeline for homeowners facing foreclosure
I vividly remember the first time my parents lost a house to foreclosure. Yes, the first time; there was a second, but more on that later. It was early 1988, just months after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, when the stock market crashed disastrously. My dad, a...
Congratulations!
At a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead, President Jay Rynda and Geneal Kerr presented Aileen Popka with her Paul Harris plus eight award and Bob Gladwell with his Paul Harris plus six award. Congratulations to these Rotarians for their support of the...
Free breakfast and lunch for Rim students
The Rim of the World Unified School District has announced that, under the National School Lunch/School Breakfast programs under the Community Eligibility Provisions for the 2024-2025 school year, all Rim students will be served lunch and breakfast at no charge at the...
Benches in place to remember Rose Smiley
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor Following the death of his daughter, Rosenda “Rose” Elizabeth Smiley – who was hit and killed by 30-year-old Joseph Alcazar in Newport Beach on May 25, 2024 – Dr. Fillmore Smiley sought a way to keep her memory alive and pay tribute to...
Storytime Saturdays launch at Crestline’s Paper & Clay
By Derek Johnson Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Paper & Clay, Crestline's new bookstore, has launched “Kids’ Storytime,” a weekly event designed to bring families together for fun and imagination. Every Saturday at 11 a.m., kids can relax on plush blue cushions...
Those Were the Days
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Alpine Mountaineer is delighted to announce the return of Those Were the Days, a weekly feature that first appeared in this paper’s forerunner, The Crestline Chronicle, in 2001and continued in The Alpenhorn News until 2018. I want...











