SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Tuesday, July 22) — Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) today announced that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senate Bill 1263. The measure will allow Amtrak to provide bus service to Frazier Park and the Mountain Communities by way of its Santa Clarita-to-Lebec “feeder bus” route.
[Last December, Frazier Park resident Daran Williams began taking a petition around the Mountain Communities asking Amtrak to schedule bus stops here on the company's... [more]
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By Gary Meyer and Patric Hedlund
You might want to be on guard at Fiesta Days this year. Rumor has it that a band of crude characters known as The Frazier Park Wild Bunch might start some trouble.
These performers of 'western shoot-outs and scenes of mayhem' will stage an old fashioned shoot-out with real six-shooters, Winchester rifles and shotguns. Bring your earplugs.
Fiesta Days fun has already begun as floats are being planned... [more]
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The U.S. Forest Service announced Wednesday, July 16 that over 68,000 marijuana plants have been seized in the Los Padres National Forest west of Pine Mountain, in a region spanning Kern and Ventura Counties.
The Mountain Enterprise was alerted early this week to helicopter-assisted marijuana raids in the forest. Federal, state and local law enforcement agents targeted two areas, where they found plants estimated to have a street value of... [more]
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By Patric Hedlund
Frazier Mountain High School students are not getting an adequate education in math and science, Gary Sokolowski of Frazier Park maintains. He appeared at the June and July meetings of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees to express concern about what he is finding on the California State Board of Education's website about the level of math scores for FMHS students. The state's STAR tests... [more]
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By Patric Hedlund, Chuck Noble and Gary Meyer
LEBEC-While over 400 fires still raged in other parts of the state Thursday, July 10, Sean Blaisdell was startled to notice a grass fire near Lebec Oaks Road and Lebec Road at about 3 p.m. He dialed 911, then rushed to his office as the fire covered the entire hillside within a few minutes. It was moving toward Los Padres Estates homes.
Fred Rose... [more]
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Frazier Mountain High School Rates Need Second Glance
By Richard Hoegh, Community Correspondent
State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell on July 16 published data on student drop-out rates throughout the state for the period between 2006-2007.
The student drop-out rate for the El Tejon Unified School District, over a four year span, comes in—at first reading—better than either the statewide or county-wide rates.
The overall drop-out rate for all students in the El Tejon district stood... [more]
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FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (Tuesday, July 22 at 5:04 p.m.) — A semi-tractor trailer truck collision on the northbound Interstate 5 at Grapevine, which earlier had all northbound lanes closed, now has one lane closed, according the California Highway Patrol. An ambulance was called to the scene. Spilled diesel fuel caused a brush fire at the shoulder of the road.... [more]
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 New Fire Restrictions in Los Padres National Forest
| By Kathy Good, Los Padres National Forest
In response to increasing fire danger, Forest Service officials have announced additional fire restrictions in Los Padres National Forest starting Friday, July 18. They will remain in effect until the end of... |
| Kern County Lures More Tourists Than Disneyland  
| By Pam Sturdevant
Kern County is the fifth largest tourism attraction in the state, beating out Disneyland and Magic Mountain. That encouraging fact was announced Wednesday, July 9 at the annual Kern County Board of Trade mixer. It was... |
| Chevron Donates $3,000 for High School Robotics Team 
| By Charles Hurst
The Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company has donated $3,000 to the Mountain Arts and Recreation Coalition (MARC) for support of the Frazier Mountain High School Robotics Team in the coming academic year.
This is the... |
| Fire Safe Council to Hold Special Meeting for Volunteers
| By Janine Tominaga, FSC President
The July FSC meeting has been rescheduled. It will be for Non Fire Agency members only. We will be meeting next Friday, July 25, 9:30 a.m. at Chuchupate Ranger Station in Lockwood Valley.
The Fire... |
| Peak to Peak Hike Slated For July 26
| By Mary Anne Lockhart, Sierra Club Condor Group
Saturday, July 26 is the date for the Sierra Club's traditional mid-summer Peak to Peak hike, six miles or so long. The hike trail goes from Mt. Pinos to Cerro Noreste,... |
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