When someone dies in the middle of a divorce in California, handling their estate isn’t as simple as it might seem. Families often face tough questions: Who gets what? Which court is in charge? And how do unfinished divorce proceedings affect the division of property...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian In 1905, the county purchased some of the mountains’ lumber roads and opened them to free public wagon use. As the automobile age was beginning, in 1908 “machine owners,” asked to use those mountain roads, but the county said...
Hey, how about those Boys of Summer, and I’m not talkin’ bout those so-called Blue Jays, if you know what I mean, and what I mean is we’ve got enough dang blue jays around these parts to last a lifetime. Those Jay birds have a lot of nerve, using spit in the middle of...
Fall is in the air and, while the mountain leaves are showing off their fiery glow and the evenings are crisp with the scent of chimney smoke, the real estate market is heating up too. It’s tempting to think that the season for selling has passed – that buyers are too...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian During the 1880s in the area now known as Cedar Glen, the Hanks Sawmill was operating on the creek. John Hook homesteaded the upper end of that creek in 1882, building his home there, naming it Hook Creek, which flows into Deep...
I hate to brag – OK, so I’m a bragger. Back in 1964, before I attended Chapman College, I enrolled at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, where one of the classes I enrolled in was drama. Why drama, you ask? Because I had already taken two years of drama classes at...
