By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Benjamin Davis Wilson was born in Tennessee in 1811. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1841 as part of the Workman-Rowland Party whose plan was to take a ship to China. The Republic of Mexico wouldn’t permit them to leave. (Daniel...
BLUE JAY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Open Mic Night with Dale Fisher 6:30-9pm Dogwood Tavern (Instagram: @dogwood_tavern) CRESTLINE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Karaoke with Kimberly Drum 7-9pm Rim of the World Sports Bar (909-338-0557) (facebook.com/Rimoftheworld...
By TIM WILCOX Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Where: Rimforest Length: 4.2 miles (round trip) Elevation gain: 458 feet Challenge: easy to moderate Let’s begin with a candid comment: There’s nothing particularly dramatic about the Dogwood Trail in...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The kindergarteners from Valley of Enchantment Elementary School recently took a field trip to the Crestline post office on Lake Drive. This field trip often makes a big impression on the students, as they get to go behind...
It’s 6 a.m. and my husband has just left for his commute down the hill. I take my first sip of coffee – hot, sweet, topped with Italian sweet cream foam – just as I check my emails for any overnight transaction fires. One email immediately catches my eye. A client had...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon The South Coast Air Quality Management District has been looking at changes to its rules governing hot water heaters and furnaces for more than a year. Last November, the Alpine Mountaineer published an article outlining the proposed...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer February is International Hunger Month for Lions Clubs internationally and the reason the Crestline Lions chose to sit in front of Goodwin’s in those freezing February winds last Saturday, Feb. 15. It was their small way of...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer “Echoes on the Mountain,” a poetry night organized by poet Jeff Rogers, brought together several local poets on Sunday night, Feb. 16, at Paper & Clay bookstore. Those poets – some well-known and others published poets –...
