While standing in line for coffee recently, I overheard a conversation that stopped me in my tracks: Someone casually remarked that real estate agents are the ones who set home prices. I didn’t chime in – I’m not in the habit of interrupting strangers – but that one...
‘We need to surround the children with love so they feel safe’
“As a child, I didn’t know what poverty was,” Cecilia Ponce de Leon told the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead, of which she is a member. “But I went to school hungry. I loved a neighbor who always had food in her refrigerator. I remember going dumpster diving after...
Estate Planning: Five essential steps to protect your loved ones
If you’ve been putting off estate planning, you’re not alone. Many people delay because it feels overwhelming, time-consuming or emotionally difficult. But the cost of not planning – both financially and emotionally – can be significant for the people you care about...
Those Were The Days: Early mountain summer resorts
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Summertime on the mountain is the best time to experience the great outdoors and go fishing and hiking. The difficulty in the early days was getting up the mountains but it was well rewarded by pleasant temperatures and cool...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Star Spangled Banner
If you’re ever awake at 4 o’clock in the morning – and I am almost every morning – do yourself a favor and tune into KCBS Channel 2 a few minutes before 4 a.m. and give a listen to an amazing, 12-year-old songstress, Reina Ozby, perform an ear-shattering version of...
Upcoming Events
BLUE JAY Craft Fair: Every Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., weather permitting, in the US Bank parking lot on North Bay Road at Hwy 189, next to Grocery Outlet. Interested new vendors should talk with Chuck at the event. CEDAR GLEN First Fridays at The Lake House:...
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. Search warrant leads to arrest for drug paraphernalia On Wednesday, July 30, deputies from the San...
The Boles Murders – 60th anniversary
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Crestline has its own mass murder, the Boles Family murders, about which a documentary was made examining this almost unknown event. The documentary, using CSI investigation techniques (before that was made popular on TV),...











