The traveling Vietnam wall – a project of the American Veterans Traveling Tribute and America’s Freedom Tribute – will be on display in Big Bear Lake from Sept. 25 to Sept. 28. "Remembering and respecting our Veterans for the selfless sacrifices they have made is one...
Local Government
Bingo and BBQ help fund Thanksgiving
By Mary-Justine Lanyon President Crestline-Lake Gregory Rotary Club Each year my Rotary Club sponsors a free community Thanksgiving dinner. The past two years, we have served, delivered or sent home nearly 1,000 meals each year. How does a small club accomplish...
Crestline’s New ALPR Camera Sparks Debate
By ALEXANDER BOLBOLIAN Special to the Alpine Mountaineer The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (SBCSD) has been rolling out an automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera expansion across the county, including an effort to monitor vehicles entering...
Where were you?
By Mary-Justine Lanyon 9.11.2001. It’s a date when everyone old enough to remember it knows exactly where they were that fateful day. The 25th anniversary has come and gone but I was curious about where my mountain friends were that day. I was still living in...
Come enjoy an afternoon of music
The Fall Music Festival, presented by the Arrowhead Arts Association, will take place on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3:00 p.m. at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. Maestro Tomasz Golka will return with the Arrowhead Arts Orchestra. He has chosen Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and...
MacKay Fire Threatened Structures
By Mary-Justine Lanyon At 2:46 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, a fire broke out in a pile of split wood across from MacKay Park, in the area behind Mountains Community Health. The fire spread into adjacent vegetation with what was called a “rapid rate of spread,”...









