In today’s economy, buying a home can feel like trying to sprint through molasses. Interest rates are hovering around 7 percent, home prices are still rising and inflation isn’t doing anyone any favors. Even folks with solid incomes are looking at their potential...
Creating a living trust is a powerful estate planning tool – but its value depends entirely on whether it’s properly funded. Funding a trust means transferring ownership of your assets into the trust’s name. Without this crucial step, the trust may not serve its...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon In the early hours of a May morning, a group of hardy volunteers gathered to plan a variety of fruit trees behind the Twin Peaks Community Center. This project is a partnership between Mountain Provisions Cooperative, Rim of the World...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Seven groups of young strings students presented an afternoon of music to a packed house at Stringtacular on June 7. The program was held in the multipurpose room at Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School. The afternoon began with the...
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council (MRFSC) is offering mountain residents a number of free fire abatement programs this summer, including free curbside chipping of downed tree limbs and branches, monthly through September. Items...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor “Thank you for encouraging me to bring these students to you,” Chris Levister, the past president of the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation told the members of the Women’s Club of Lake Arrowhead at their June 18 meeting. “We’re not just the...
Submitted by Lauren Kruz Mountain Provisions Cooperative The first harvest of mountain-grown vegetables in the Lauri Carleton Memorial Garden took place on Saturday, June 14. The garden – located on Grass Valley Road in Lake Arrowhead – was established just one...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor Green Valley Lake’s Summer Faire in the community garden on June 14 was a day of music and fun times with family and friends. The day began with a sound bath meditative experience with Crystal Nieblas, followed by a program on...
