A prescribed burn runs Nov 5–7 in North Lake Arrowhead. The post asks neighbors not to report it — it's planned, not a wildfire.
Residents off Sequoia reported seeing a fire — this is the prescribed burn in North Lake Arrowhead, running Nov 5–7.
After 14 years, Mountain Thrift & Video is closing its Running Springs storefront. Everything is 50% off in a liquidation sale, with closing expected within the next 4–8 weeks; the shop plans to continue online and at local events.
A neighbor asks whether there are volunteer opportunities to serve food on Thanksgiving Day, or help with meal prep the day before.
A parent asks where on the mountain a teen with a fresh learner's permit can practice driving — 19 comments and counting with suggestions.
The long-running Lake Arrowhead Community Services District fight flared across several groups. The focal post breaks down the District's own April 28, 2026 board agenda packet: a $14.7M recycled-water process upgrade, with $700K in FY 2028-29 and $7M each in the two following years, drawing 17 comments. The argument: how much will land on ratepayers, and how much of it funds water for the Lake Arrowhead Country Club. Cross-posted widely — expect this one to keep running.
A poster pushes back on the budget debate, arguing the April 28 LACSD draft budget — including its proposed $14.7M recycled-water production upgrade — was a draft plan, not a final commitment.
Meanwhile, posters note the LACSD board has cancelled its October meeting days before the Nov 3 election, calling the lost chance for public questions a transparency failure.
A longer letter to Arrowhead Woods owners recaps the 2022 SB 1405 fight and the 2020 state directive on PFAS in the lake, arguing ratepayers were kept in the dark until 2023.
The debate continues: a poster argues that owning property and paying LACSD bills shouldn't disqualify residents from questioning how ratepayer money is spent, and challenges Country Club president Maria Hardin-Carter and former LACSD board member Steve Keefe for attacking questioners instead of addressing the documented agreements.
A separate post urges neighbors to vote in this important election.
The LACSD election is underway, and a cross-posted endorsement urges ratepayers to vote for Ben Naraghi and Paul Burney.
A former LACSD president recounts the 2007 contract history behind the recycled-water fight: the deal required the Lake Arrowhead Country Club to take recycled water instead of lake water at a discount, and set up a mechanism for wells on club property.
A poster answers LACSD board member Eric Chappell directly, defending the Burney, Harrison and Naraghi candidacies and pressing for answers on the Supplemental Water Supply Fee, a $5M interfund loan for pension liabilities, and free recycled water for the Country Club.
A new post presses the LACSD board-spending case and urges votes for Rob Harrison, Paul Burney and Ben Naraghi, citing deferred infrastructure repairs and 65% asbestos-cement drinking-water pipes per the district general manager's report.
In the same LACSD debate, a poster ran the numbers on board member Eric Chappell's claim of 10,544 feet of water and sewer line repaired in two years at $4,128,644 — about $391.56 per foot — and argued that at one mile a year, replacing the remaining 198 miles would take 198 years.
The LACSD debate widened: a ratepayer post now calls for a full independent forensic audit of the district going back at least 20 years, citing the roughly $42 million collected through the Supplemental Water Supply Fee between 2004 and 2019 and questioning what it delivered.
On the eve of the election, a candidate for the Lake Arrowhead Community Services District Board of Directors posted a reflection on why they are running — safe drinking water, a healthy lake, responsible spending, and a district that operates openly — drawing 19 reactions and 11 comments.
On Election Day, a candidate pressed sitting board member Eric Chappell on the district's infrastructure problems — what has been proactively repaired, what was done to prevent a recurrence of the 300-gallon sewage spill, and what the board has done to assess the wastewater system — calling crumbling infrastructure a more urgent issue than funding a solar farm.
In the same debate, another post challenged Chappell directly to name the three most serious infrastructure problems facing LACSD and to spell out specific actions, costs, funding, and a realistic timeline for each.
Rob Harrison says that if the unofficial results hold, he'll represent Division 3 on the LACSD Board, thanking supporters and outgoing board member Michelle Ambrozic and pledging greater transparency and accountability.
A follow-up post declares the LACSD ratepayers 'now have a seat at the table' following the election.
Emo Night is Friday at Bizzyland, and it's all ages.
A beginner's improv theater workshop meets today (Thursday) in Crestline, no experience needed. This session walks through a murder-mystery show format. Details at mountaincounseling.org/events.
Spade & Spatula (Ca. Gastropub) is displaying local art for sale — paintings by Nancy Van Buskirk, Donna Bernstein, Mary Kearney, Jim Chrysler, and Ami Usery, plus crochet stuffies by Cara McCarty Fraser.
New work by local artists is arriving all week at the gallery inside Spade & Spatula in Blue Jay — visitors are invited to have a meal and see the new pieces.
Cara McCarty Fraser has added holiday crochet items — including her giant hippo — to the display at Spade & Spatula; the pieces make good holiday or baby-shower gifts.
Twin Peaks detectives extradited Erik Eduardo Navarro from Cleveland County, Oklahoma, where he was jailed on separate traffic charges, and returned him to San Bernardino County on Oct. 27. He was booked into West Valley Detention Center on charges including battery with serious injury, robbery, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from an Aug. 25 attack on a 71-year-old Crestline woman. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Twin Peaks Station at (909) 336-0660.
Registrar of Voters workers emptied the ballot box at the Running Springs library last Friday, cleaning the boxes and securing them against tampering and the predicted rain. The workers said they empty the boxes at least every other day and would continue to do so through Election Day, and spoke with pride about being entrusted with the job.
The Crest Forest and Lake Arrowhead Municipal Advisory Councils held a joint meeting at San Moritz Lodge on Oct. 6, opening with a tribute to the late Robin Bull, who most recently served as Supervisor Dawn Rowe's mountain field representative. County agencies reported on their activities, and Twin Peaks Sheriff's Station Captain Craig Harris reported 1,364 calls for service in September, with 100 reports taken and 20 arrests.
At its Oct. 24 meeting, the Arrowhead Lake Association seated three recently elected directors — Paul Cate (South District), Garin Vartanian (East District) and incumbent Justin Frank (At-Large A) — and unanimously reelected President Bud Macer and Vice President Marilyn Dishell. General Manager Mike Pate reported the lake is at its highest level in many years at this point in the season, with a record amount of silt removed by the in-house maintenance team.
Arrowhead Villas Mutual Service Co. is moving forward with plans to replace its aging water storage, putting two new 170,000-gallon tanks on the site of two 1920s-era tanks that were demolished. The roughly $800,000 project has a $200,000 loan in place, and the fabricator, Superior Tank, has guaranteed financing for the rest; the existing 300,000-gallon tank, built in 1981, needs to be taken offline, cleaned and relined.
First Friday at The Lake House on Nov. 6 features landscape artists Laura Wambsgans and Deborah Day, with a portion of proceeds benefiting local charities. Owner Robin Lyles donates part of each month's proceeds to a mountain nonprofit, and the Rim of the World Historical Society is the Nov. 6 recipient.
Starlit Coffee Co closed Oct 29–Nov 3 for a special event, back Nov 4.
Unexpectedly closed today (Oct 22) due to car trouble — an update promised soon.
Starlit Coffee Co. in Crestline is back open after its Oct 29–Nov 3 closure, at 23830 Lake Drive — Tuesday–Friday 6 AM–3 PM (lunch break 11 AM–12 PM) and Saturday–Sunday 7:30 AM–3 PM, closed Mondays.
A multicar accident was reported on southbound SR-138 right around the Crestline cutoff on Wednesday morning, with tow trucks and fire trucks already on scene. Drivers heading down SR-138 are urged to take it slow around that turn.
Earlier Wednesday morning, a separate hazard was reported on SR-138 before the SR-18 junction: a box in the road on the way down the mountain, with drivers urged to avoid it.