By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor That mountain residents and visitors were excited to get out and listen to some exceptional jazz last weekend was borne out by the sell-out crowds at the Blue Jay Jazz Festival. Chris Levister, president of the Blue Jay Jazz...
By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor Things are good in mountain real estate but have slowed a bit. There have been fewer transactions recently. That was part of the report given by Steve Keefe, owner/broker of Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge Realty, at a meeting of the Mountain...
On April 22, 2022, Caltrans closed the section of Highway 18 between LakeGregory Drive and Pine Road due to erosion near Red Rock Wall. Exactly four months later, on Aug. 22, Public Information Officer Emily Leinen went live on Facebook to announce the repair work had...
By Douglas W. MotleySenior Writer The tiny mountain hamlet of Green Valley Lake celebrated the 53rd anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair – commonly referred to simply as “Woodstock” – on Saturday, Aug. 20. The original Woodstock lured some 400,000 free...
By Douglas W. MotleySenior Writer Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 9624 and its Auxiliary, both based in Cedarpines Park, will once again be hosting their annual trout derby on Saturday, Sept. 3 at Lake Gregory Regional Park. This year’s event, which has been...
By Mary-Justine LanyonEditor As a boy growing up in the Los Angeles area, Pablo Tello got picked on and was bullied. “I was not a big kid,” he said. But then he started watching Bruce Lee movies, which inspired him to take up martial arts, specifically Tae Kwon Do. At...
