If you’re a local business owner, a workplace retirement plan can be a powerful tool – helping you manage taxes, support employee retention and build long‑term financial security. Despite common misconceptions, these plans aren’t just for large companies. Today’s...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Those Were the Days
It’s finally May, meaning summer is almost here…I hope! Looking back to summers of the past, I remember doing some pretty wild and wooly things as a kid growing up in Tustin, which is in the O.C. between us and the Pacific Coast. When young teens, we were a bicycle...
Estate Planning: The state doesn’t take your assets when you die – But unclaimed property laws might
One of the most common misconceptions in California estate planning is that the state will take your assets when you die. That’s not how it works. Your assets pass according to your trust, will, beneficiary designations or California intestacy laws. However, assets...
Those Were The Days: The Hencks move to Skyforest and start a school
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Joseph E. Henck and his uncle and father purchased the 440 acres that have become Skyforest from the Kuffel family. The Kuffels were an early pioneer family, who have a canyon named for them. They had homesteaded the area...
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.
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. ...
Rotary: the hinge that turns commitment into action
“I’m going to take you on a journey – where polio has been, where it has brought us and how you can help finish the job.” That’s what Johrita Solari told members of the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead at their April 28 meeting. Solari – a past district governor, Rotary...
It wasn’t a typical Bingo evening
By Mary-Justine Lanyon The Masonic Lodge in Twin Peaks was filled with cries of “Wine-O” as Soroptimist International of Rim of the World held their Wine-O Bingo fundraiser on April 24. Richard Pomerantz pulled corks marked with letters and wine varietals. As he...











