Tax season gives business owners one rare thing: a clear picture of what the business actually earns. But there’s an equally important question most owners never ask during that window: What happens to the business if you suddenly can’t show up tomorrow? Not because...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Here Comes Summer
I’d like to begin this week with a seasonal sort of rhyme that goes sort of like this: Spring has sprung, and fall has fell. Now it’s summer and it’s hotter than…heck, yes, that’s it, hotter than heck, what the heck did you think I was gonna say? Well, there’s no...
Upcoming Events
BIG BEAR Big Bear Theatre Project: On Golden Pond, June 18-28. Creating Worlds Playwright Festival, Aug. 13-16. tick,tick…BOOM!, Oct. 15-25. A Ghost Story, Dec. 17-20. Big Bear Performing Arts Center. Tickets and more information, bigbeartheatreproject.org. BLUE JAY...
Sheriff’s Log
Editor’s note: As the sheriff’s department is no longer providing their log of calls, the Alpine Mountaineer is compiling Nixle press releases for our readers. This week there are no new releases from the mountain area or Highland.
LACS launches middle school track program
Submitted by Lake Arrowhead Christian School Athletics Although small in size, Lake Arrowhead Christian School made a big imprint in its first middle school track season. Coach Renee Wetzel led a team of 10 Eagles into competition against 29 other schools (and...
Local soprano opens AAA’s chamber music series with an afternoon of opera arias
By JULIANNE HOMOKAY Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Coming off the heels of pianist John Reith’s successful concert at St. Richard’s Episcopal Church last month, soprano and Arrowhead Arts Association board member Kirsten Ashley Wiest is producing another...
Financial Focus: Five questions that could change how you see retirement
Retirement is about more than saving. It's also about knowing what you're saving for. If you're within five to ten years of retirement, now is the time to start building a plan around the life you want. Ask yourself these five questions to help shape your retirement...
Kites fill skies over San Moritz Meadow
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer The free kite festival held at Lake Gregory’s San Moritz Meadow on the last day of May was a complete success as families came out to fly kites in the breeze, next to Lake Gregory’s shore. The sun was out, the weather was warming...










