‘Go Skate Day’ a success at Crestline skate park
By Rhea-Frances Tetley Staff Writer National Go Skate Day was well celebrated at the Crestline skate park on Friday June 21 with more than 100 skaters coming to town along with many skateboard-related vendors. Sponsored by Stoops, the park was hopping with fantastic...
Juneteenth: ‘It’s our collective history’
By Mary-Justine Lanyon President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states (during the Civil War) “are and henceforward shall be free.” But it wasn’t until June 19,...
Lake Drive construction project nearing end
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer An ongoing construction project to replace a damaged electrical vault beneath the pavement adjacent to Snyder’s Tire Works at 23952 Lake Drive in Crestline is nearing an end. The concrete vault reportedly suffered damage from...
Henck family revisit the Skyforest community they built
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Last weekend the Henck family gathered at their family cabin in Skyforest to memorialize their recently departed uncle, Ted Thomas, who was married to Kaki (Catherine) Henck Lovell. “He was the last of that generation of Hencks and...
