When someone dies, their debts do not simply disappear – but they also do not automatically become the responsibility of their children or other beneficiaries. Understanding what happens to debt after death can prevent grieving families from paying bills they may not...
Those Were The Days: Switzer Park and its many historical markers
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Switzer Park on Highway 18 is located east of Arrowhead Villas and west of Skyforest. The area was chosen by the Lake Arrowhead Women’s Club, established in 1926, first to reforest the area after the fires and then to honor two...
Upcoming Events
BIG BEAR Big Bear Theatre Project: 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 Craft Fair: Every Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., weather permitting, in the US...
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. Suspect arrested in vandalism of automated license plate readers On Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, at approximately...
New LGBTQ+ council and grant program honor Lauri Carleton
Mountain Provisions Cooperative announced the launch of the Friends of Lauri Council and its inaugural Community Impact grant program, a new initiative created in honor of Lauri Carleton, a founding member of the cooperative and longtime advocate for equality, unity...
Navarro sought for assault and theft
By Rhea-Frances Tetley Staff writer Erik Eduardo Navarro, a 26-year-old who has been recently living locally in Crestline but is from Orange County, is being sought by Twin Peaks sheriff’s officials for several serious crimes. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, at about 6:00...
Learning from – and playing with – the master
By Mary-Justine Lanyon This year’s Blue Jay Jazz Festival kicked off a day early with a master class led by Carl Verheyen and the members of his band on Aug. 26. The first several rows at the Performing Arts Center at Rim of the World High School were filled...
Lessons on Peacefully Co-existing with Bears
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Leisure Shores in Crestline welcomed Nancy Anderson, the former senior bear keeper at Wildhaven Ranch Rehabilitation Center in Cedar Glen, who spoke to a full room of about 40 mountain residents on peaceful co-existence with...











