Wildfire Strikes in Lockwood Valley

Wildfire Strikes in Lockwood Valley

Memories of the 2006 Day fire struck many as they saw smoke rising from Lockwood Valley Saturday, April 18. Melissa Yoes was turned back by CHP on her way to visit friends in Lockwood Valley. …

Television News Gets it Wrong…Terribly Wrong

Reports issued by a Bakersfield television station—saying that rescue crews had left 15-year-old Michael Manning alive on a mountainside overnight, then returned in the morning to find he had died—are untrue. Southern Kern Search and …

News Update Man Stabbed in Frazier Park

FRAZIER PARK (Monday, April 27, 2009 4 p.m.)—Witnesses report that last night, shortly after 10 p.m., a man who lives in the 800 block of Santa Rosa Trail was stabbed three times in the chest.

Hush Falls Over School

Hush Falls Over School

By Sara Woerter

A gloomy cloud hung over Frazier Mountain High School Tuesday. You noticed the quiet whispers when school began—no one was talking or laughing, everything was very quite. Over the morning announcements, no …

NEWS ALERT: Water To Be Turned Off Thursday. April 30

According to Lebec County Water District, water will be turned off for Frazier Mountain Mobile Home Park and the Frykholm residence on Thursday, April 30 from 10 a.m. ’til 1 p.m. for scheduled maintenance work. …

Texas Hold ‘EM Benefits Chamber of Commerce

Texas Hold 'EM Benefits Chamber of Commerce

By Stacey Havener, Chamber of Commerce

The First Annual Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce (MCCOC) Texas Hold ‘em Poker Tournament was held this month.

“King of the Mountain… Communities” was coined as the tournament’s name.

News and Features

What is 420?

By Patric Hedlund

A more terrible night than that of April 20, 2009 would be hard to imagine for Mountain Community parents. In Pine Mountain, where Michael’s family lives, distressed friends and neighbors gathered in ...

Nature Fest III Is the Place To Be Saturday

Saturday, April 25 • Free • 12 to 3:30 p.m. Frazier Park Elementary School

By Mary Ann Lockhart

You will meet some special guests at Nature Fest III, such as a six-foot Honduran iguana. He ...

Services Planned for Forest Ann Sjoberg

Forest Ann Sjoberg, 86 owner of Frazier Mountain Real Estate in Frazier Park since 1977, passed away on April 15 in Bakersfield. She had been ill with congestive heart failure.

Sjoberg was one of the ...

An Angel Flying Into the Sunset

“I hope you don’t think I’m nuts for seeing this form in the cloud, but it truly did take my breath away when I first saw it,” reporter Katy Penland wrote of the cloud formations ...

Race for Valley Fever Vaccine Gains Focus

CDC Says Illness Reports Up

Special to The Mountain Enterprise By Pauline Larwood, Valley Fever Vaccine Project Chairperson

Kern County is “ground zero” for Valley Fever in California. The Communicable Disease Center (CDC) in Atlanta ...

Four-Way Stop Is Hot Spot for Tickets

By Sgt. Mark Brown

I noticed my deputies were writing tickets at the [four-way stop] intersection so I parked there for about 45 minutes one day last week. I did not write tickets, I just ...

Woman Found Dead in Home by Friend

By Patric Hedlund

At 5 a.m. on Thursday, April 16 a 911 call was placed for help at 13908 Yellowstone Drive in Pine Mountain.

Firefighters who arrived at the scene called the Kern County Sheriff’s ...