By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Crestline’s annual series of Corks & Hops craft beer and wine festivals concludes this coming Saturday, Oct. 5. Sponsored by the Crestline Chamber of Commerce, Corks & Hops is a wine and beer tasting festival featuring craft...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Lake Arrowhead’s 49th annual home tour, produced by the Lake Arrowhead Chamber of Commerce, was held on Sept. 21, 2024. The home tour is a community-run event, where volunteers work together to show off the best of Lake Arrowhead to...
By Elise Gray Special to the Alpine Mountaineer At a community meeting held on the evening of Sept. 14 at the Hootman Center in Running Springs, local officials and fire authorities provided updates on the ongoing Line Fire, which began in Highland on Sept. 6. They...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor As a young girl, Hilda Valenzuela Wendtland grew up in Cuba, where she was born, under communism and Fidel Castro. “Our voices were silenced, people were sent to prison and shot by a firing squad. The world knew nothing about it,” Hilda...
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer A community meeting to inform mountain residents of progress being made on quelling the acrid smoke and flames of the Line Fire in the hills above Highland was held on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at Crestline’s San Moritz Lodge. The meeting,...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon On April 9, 2016, Kim Starr – who at the time split her time between Twin Peaks and Ohio – set out to accomplish her dream: to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail. Over the next seven years, Starr whittled away at what she calls the...
