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Walking To Raise Awareness of Breast Cancer

By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Leisure Shores in Crestline was the starting location for the fifth annual breast cancer “Walk in the Mountains” sponsored by Soroptimists International of Rim of the World to raise fund to provide mammograms for those in need on...

Praise for the superintendent’s storm response – Dismay expressed over reported closure of theater

May 12, 2023 | Local

By Mary-Justine Lanyon (Photos by Sara Green) Salary increases were on the agenda for the April 20 meeting of the Rim of the World Unified School District’s board of trustees. The five trustees unanimously approved a 5.5-percent increase, effective July 1, 2022, for...

Agencies respond to concerns over storm response

May 12, 2023 | Local

By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY - Staff Writer (Photos by Rhea-Frances Tetley) More than 100 concerned and affected community members attended a combined meeting of the mountain’s two Municipal Advisory Councils (MACs) on May 3 in the performing arts center at Rim High. Those...

Residents protest higher road maintenance fees

May 3, 2023 | Local

By Mike Harris - Special to The Alpine Mountaineer Twin Peaks residents protested paying a big jump in fees for road maintenance and snow removal service to county supervisors on April 25 and it worked—at least temporarily. Parcel owners in the Rim Forest road...

FEMA and SBA disaster assistance center opens in Twin Peaks

May 3, 2023 | Government

By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY - Staff Writer In the Twin Peaks Community Center at 675 Grandview Drive is the newly opened disaster assistance and recovery center, where representatives from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), SBA (U.S. Small Business...