Breaking News: Lawsuits filed over rural fire tax

FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 at 3:40 p.m.) —This is a press release regarding filing of a suit against the rural fire prevention fee. The bills just received locally cover fiscal year 2011-2012. …

Fire Report: Fire Extinguished in West Antelope Valley

Fire Report:  Fire Extinguished in West Antelope Valley

NEENACH, CALIFORNIA (Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 at 11:15 a.m.)–Photographer Jeff Zimmerman sent these photos of "a five acre wildfire [which] was stopped along Munz Ranch road and Lancaster road [on Tuesday afternoon] in triple digit …

News and Features

Three Lost Teens Found on Tecuya Ridge

CUDDY VALLEY / FRAZIER PARK, CA (Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 4:24 a.m.)—As nighttime temperatures have begun dipping into the freezing zone, and snow fell at 6,000 feet yesterday, three lost hikers were found by Southern ...

Comment: Another child is gone too young

“Someone I thought I knew threw in the towel, gave up the fight…It’s hard to believe what’s done is done, another child is gone too young,” sings Lebec musician Mark Perry on the track he ...

Enterprise on the Road

June Schmidt and her daughter, FMHS senior Mary Schmidt, took The Mountain Enterprise along to the Relay for Life 2012 Summit held at the Hyatt Regency in Garden Grove on September 28. “We are preparing ...

Want to pie your teacher? PMLC holds annual fundraiser

By Amy Masuhara and Dara Watters, Pine Mountain Learning Center

Pine Mountain Learning Center is holding its 6th annual Cardio-a-thon fundraiser on October 12. This is our largest fundraiser— last year we raised over $7,000. ...

First Solar calls for hasty meeting

Breaking News: News from the Western Antelope Valley

As we go to press, angry letters from the Western Antelope Valley have begun to pour in about a sudden meeting called by First Solar, Inc. at ...

Hunting Resumes at Tejon Ranch

A new hunting program is now in place at Tejon Ranch. Membership rates have increased and hunting territories have been changed. Deer season on the ranch started last week. It begins earlier than in the ...