By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Shop Small Saturday is this Saturday, Nov. 29. All the mountain chambers of commerce are supporting this official beginning of the holiday shopping season by encouraging you to shop locally first. This day encourages shoppers...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor: Every morning, I ask for guidance on how I can save our country, how I can contribute to my community and how to guide my children and grandchildren. I was deeply concerned about people going hungry during the shutdown so I asked Mike Johnstone at...
Ask the realtor: Don’t let your packages get returned to sender
As your local Realtor, I get to hear all the funny, frustrating and uniquely mountain-life stories that come with moving to Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, Running Springs and our neighboring communities. As soon as the holiday shopping season kicks in, one story shows up...
Season’s greetings from Rebuilding Together
By Tim Clarke Rebuilding Together Mountain Communities While we wait for the first snow of the season to spread across the mountains, we look forward to seeing family and friends – and the consuming of good foods followed by the obligatory belt loosening that...
Scouts collect nearly a ton of food for those in need
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer Under the guidance of Scoutmaster Charles DeBruyn and Jim Newcomb, the Boy Scout assistant commissioner for the mountain communities, a dozen or more Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Lake Arrowhead-based Boy Scout Troop 89 and...
Arts & Entertainment Guide
BLUE JAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 ---------------------------------- Friday Night Live with 2-Drink Minimum 8pm Dogwood Tavern (dogwoodtavern.net) CRESTLINE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 --------------------------------------- Karaoke with Kimberly Drum 8pm-late Rim of the...
Those Were The Days: County supervisors drive to Little Bear in 1909
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The winter of 1908-1909 started out with a foot of snow in December and then seven inches of rain on Jan. 21, with snowfall after snowfall for weeks afterward. Two hundred families in Redlands already owned automobiles in 1909....
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: November Rain
Wudaya know, here it is November and do ya know what’s weird? I mean, besides Al Yankovic. What’s really weird is these last two weeks. First, it’s Edison’s dang (scuse me fer cussin’ Mom) power outages. Then, they sez yes and then they sez no. Then, before ya know...











