Business

Financial Focus: Managing Risk at Different Stages of Life

As an investor, risk is always part of the journey – but how you manage it can depend on where you are in life. Early in your career, you can invest for growth and take on more risk, knowing you have time to recover from market downturns. In midlife, with goals like...

Crestline Café under new ownership

Apr 14, 2022 | Business, Crestline, Front Page

By Douglas W. MotleySenior Writer Amber Crubaugh, the new owner of the Crestline Café, began her eight-year-long career at the restaurant in June 2014. “I had been a manager at McDonald’s in Blue Jay for five years,” she told The Alpine Mountaineer, “before an opening...

Moving up the ladder of success

Feb 24, 2022 | Business, Front Page

By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor One might ask what being a personal trainer and bartending have to do with becoming a successful real estate agent. But, in the case of Michelle Calkins, her two previous careers undoubtedly led to her success with Coldwell Banker Sky...

Creating unity in diversity

Feb 17, 2022 | Business, Front Page

By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor When Cecilia Ponce de Leon and her husband, Michael, bought CAPRE Real Estate and moved to the mountain three years ago, they were no strangers to the community. For many years, Ponce de Leon had had a vacation home on the mountain and...

Stockade Restaurant under new ownership

Jan 20, 2022 | Business, Crestline, Front Page

By Douglas W. MotleySenior Writer Crestline’s historic “World Famous, Stockade Whiskey and Grub, Est. 1954” restaurant is currently undergoing some upgrades to its interior under the direction of its new owners, Chip Anzalone and Kyle Lake, who purchased the...