Breaking News: ETUSD Trustee Cathy Wallace Resigns

ETUSD Trustee Cathy Wallace Resigns

LEBEC, CA (Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 11 a.m.)–El Tejon Unified School District Trustee Cathy Wallace has resigned her seat on the board. In a statement dated July 19, Superintendent Katie Kleier said Wallace’s July …

Plane Crashes in Lockwood Valley

Plane Crashes in Lockwood Valley

By Patric Hedlund

“It is sort of part of the adventure, you meet an awful lot of fantastic people when things like that happen,” retired businessman William Thomason said in an interview on Monday, July …

Principal Resigns from El Tejon, FP Schools

Principal Resigns from El Tejon, FP Schools

“It was an unexpected opportunity for me,” Dena Kiouses said, “and I took it.”

For three years Kiouses has served as principal of both Frazier Park School (grades K-3) and El Tejon School (grades 4-8). …

Rain and Snowfall Hit Local Record

Rain and Snowfall Hit Local Record

Reported by Jim Lumsden

It was a record year for precipitation in the Mountain Communities. We recorded 27.73 inches of precipitation from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 (known as the ‘precipitation year’). This …

Mountain Shakespeare Festival Runs Through July

Mountain Shakespeare Festival Runs Through July

Two plays performed by the Mountain Shakespeare Festival will have you laughing one night and crying the next.

Bullshot Crummond will split your sides with laughter at the antics of the British man of action …

Save Fort Tejon

Save Fort Tejon

July 6, 2011 Dear Editor:

This is a letter to all members of the Mountain Communities.

I recently found out about the closure of Fort Tejon. My father, John Fuess, has volunteered at this community …

FMHS Varsity Sports Are Restored, Principal Hired

FMHS Varsity Sports Are Restored, Principal Hired

District Prepares to Close El Tejon School-4th and 5th Graders to Attend Frazier Park School for 2011-2012

By Pam Sturdevant and Patric Hedlund

Amid budget cuts and layoffs, funding for Frazier Mountain High School’s varsity …

News and Features

Whooping Cough Shots Required By Schools

Free Vaccinations Offered By Gary Meyer

Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccinations are needed for children returning to school this year, according to El Tejon Unified School District Superintendent Katie Kleier. Militsa Brennan reports there will be ...

The Dog Days Of Summer

Maggie Takes a Road Trip

Maggie Van Ostrand is a humorist and columnist who lives in Pine Mountain

By Maggie Van Ostrand

Just got back from a crosscountry drive with my two dogs and boy, ...

Pine Mountain Village Merchants Have Big Plans

Pine Mountain Wine Fest Rises Like a Phoenix as Art Walk, Golf Tournament Planned for this Year

By Patric Hedlund

There was a lilt in the voices of members of the Pine Mountain Village Merchants ...

Bard’s Faire Sunday Is for the Whole Family

By Maxine Stenstrom, Holly Van Houten and Kat Fair

The Mountain Shakespeare Festival will hold their annual Bard’s Faire at the Pine Mountain Village Center Gazebo on Sunday, July 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...

Big Plans in Neenach

By Jan Olof Hellsund

Shortly after the attractions of wind, sun and nearby highpower transmission lines were discovered in the Western Antelope Valley, ‘green energy’ developers began purchasing land for solar and wind turbine farms. ...