Goodwin’s Family Christmas on Dec. 1 drew a large crowd to Lake Gregory. The tree was lit (1) with a new special package underneath its boughs this year, courtesy of the Lake Gregory Company. Santa’s elves were everywhere (2), bringing fun to the young and young at...
Members of the Rim of the World Educational Foundation board with Heather Hackney at the Giving Tuesday event hosted by Heather and John Hackney at the Lakefront Tap Room. The Hackneys donated a portion of the proceeds from the sales on the evening of Dec. 2. Rim Ed...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The Mountain History Museum will be open this Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20 and 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Dec. 21 they will hold their annual end of the year open house. Santa Claus will be visiting the museum from noon to...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor’s note: If you missed Part 1 of this report on the Rotary Friendship Exchange, you can read it online in the Dec. 4, 2025, flip issue. As our Friendship Exchange team from District 5330 in California made its way to Ratlam – our...
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer The venerable Old Country Coffee Shop in Running Springs played host to a dozen or so sheriff’s deputies and senior officers from the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station and several CHP officers, who showed up for Coffee with a Cop...
This month’s homebuyers are quietly scoring some of the best deals we’ve seen in a while, and it’s happening in ways that don’t always show up in headline price reductions. Sellers whose homes have been sitting on the market for three months or longer are tired....
By Mary-Justine Lanyon For many years, Holland Lowe, executive director of Operation Provider, has put on a truly magnificent dinner on Christmas Day with the help of a flock of elf volunteers. On Dec. 25, folks are invited to come to the Elks Lodge in...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon When you do something for other people, you are actually giving yourself a gift. That’s what Lupe McDonald told the girls who are part of the Soroptimists’ Every Girl Counts program at their Dec. 10 meeting. She challenged the girls: “In...
