By Mike Harris Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Almost a year and a half after Goodwin’s Market closed because the horrific snowstorm of March 2023 collapsed the store’s roof, the family-owned supermarket is having a grand reopening celebration and the public...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Thirteen years ago, Marina and Rich Goodwin came up to Lake Arrowhead on a whim. “Rich had always wanted to live somewhere different,” Marina said. At the time, the couple lived in Orange County. “We looked at Big Bear and ended up in...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon There was a changing of the guard at the July meeting of the Women’s Club of Lake Arrowhead. After serving as president for five years, Polly Sauer stepped down; her place is being taken by Jeri Simpson. Sauer thanked her outgoing board members...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon At the opening concert of the Blue Jay Jazz Festival on Aug. 22, Future General Jazz scholarships will be presented to 10 young musicians: Colin Hobson, Vincent Felix, Dylan Whitter, Brenden Watson, Hazel Perez, Martha Urrutia, Katherine...
The population of the mountain region comprises just 2 percent of the total that makes up San Bernardino County. The Mountain Homeless Coalition has just two staff members and a few volunteers. And yet, one out of every four unhoused clients in the county from January...
By TIM WILCOX Special to the Alpine Mountaineer "When I’m out painting in nature, it’s the happiest, most joyful and most satisfying thing I do." – Nancy Grace The greeting at the front door of her Lake Arrowhead home, high above Grass Valley Lake, is...
The Alpine Mountaineer proudly presents a new weekly column on the mountain’s most storied and successful athletic endeavor – Rim wrestling. This sport has touched the lives of many local boys and girls. Some excelled and some didn’t, but all gained life lessons...
By Cady Price Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Tina Fox moved from Orange County to the mountain community in 2004 with her husband, Bob, and their two daughters, Ali and Sam, shortly before starting her own local catering company. Tina had previously worked for...
