By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer One of the exciting high points of the Mountain Fifes & Drums Corps annual presentation of “A Colonial Christmas and Mount Vernon Homecoming” was the corps members dancing the 18th century Virginia Reel with the audience. This...
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Mountain Events
Looking Back at 2025 – Part 2
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer July 3 – A stubborn brush fire of unknown origin, first reported at 3:52 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, consumed some 478 acres of tinder-dry brush and chaparral east of the Cajon Pass, near Silverwood Lake. The blaze, propelled by...
Chamber holiday mixer celebrates the ski season
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer The Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce held its last mixer for 2025 in the Iris Room of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge. Many of its members came dressed for the Vintage Apres Ski theme, wearing vintage style ski...
Welcome back, Jackie and Shadow
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Jackie and Shadow – the Big Bear eagles we have all come to love – are back on their nest. Thanks to the camera the Friends of Big Bear Valley installed at the nest, folks across the U.S. are able to keep tabs on the couple. Sandy Steers,...
Ensuring a Merry Christmas for mountain kids
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Happy elves were busy wrapping gifts in the social hall at the Lake Arrowhead Community Presbyterian Church on Friday, Dec. 19. Those gifts – 468 of them – were going to 156 mountain kids in 60 families to help make their Christmases...
A Christmas Carol at the Tudor House
For a decade, the Heisler Theater Company has presented A Christmas Carol to the mountain community. The story is from the original story by Charles Dickens, who is also included in this version of the play. “We are thrilled to be back at the Tudor House theater...









