Breaking News: Updates: Canyon Fire 60 Percent Contained

Updates: Canyon Fire 60 Percent Contained

UPDATE at 9:55 a.m., September 7; (Kern County Fire Department media update) Tehachapi, CA —Fire activity on the Canyon Fire is minimal. Remaining fire crews will continue to construct control lines, mop up operations and …

Breaking News: New Trustee Chosen for ETUSD Board

FRAZIER PARK and LEBEC, CA (Friday, Sept 2, 8 a.m.)—The new trustee for the El Tejon Unified School District Board is Stephan Kiouses of Lebec (husband of former El Tejon and Frazier Park Schools, Dena …

Falcon Pride Takes Wing

Falcon Pride Takes Wing

By Patric Hedlund

Watch out. Two new Falcon logos and a campaign to celebrate a bright new culture of academic opportunity for students at Frazier Mountain High School are being unveiled this month.

New principal …

It’s Our Birthday!

It's Our Birthday!

The Mountain Enterprise Enters its 46th Year of Service to the Mountain

By Gary Meyer and Patric Hedlund

On September 22, 1966 the first edition of The Mountain Enterprise was produced on a robin’s egg …

Fall Festival To Dazzle September 3 and 4

Fall Festival To Dazzle September 3 and 4

Don’t worry if you don’t have your poodle skirt and saddle shoes clean and ready for September 3 and 4— the gals in The Wonderelles will be wearing them for you as they perform classic …

New Frazier Park Library To Open in October

Kern County Library’s new Frazier Park branch has been slated to open Saturday, October 22.

According to Director of Libraries Diane Duquette, major signage is being installed this week, while other items such as equipment …

Excerpt: Do You Know How Powerful You Really Are?

Excerpt: Do You Know How Powerful You Really Are?

By Marcy Axness, Ph.D.

A towering question lives today in the minds and hearts of young people, perhaps more strongly than ever before in human history, as they feel the growing shadow of our global …

News and Features

Mil Potrero Hwy Construction to Cause Delays

PINE MOUNTAIN, CA (Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 at 11:55 a.m.)–Construction on Mil Potrero Highway is expected to cause up to 20-minute delays for motorists traveling to and from Pine Mountain on Thursday, Friday and Tuesday, ...

Water Problems Plague Los Padres Estates

Krista Mutual Water Company customers in Los Padres Estates were still boiling water this week, after the pump motor in their only well malfunctioned Sunday, Aug. 21. The pump has been replaced, twice, and residents ...

Don Geivet Retires from Tejon Ranch

By Patric Hedlund

The retirement of a 39-year veteran of service with the Tejon Ranch Company has been met with both skepticism and alarm by hunters around the country who consider Tejon Ranch property to ...

Join the Ride To Remember

Join Emily Brennan Dickson and John Fuess for the 10th Anniversary Ride to Remember on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. You can participate on horseback, on foot or in your car. • If you are a ...

Interest in Growing Is Growing on the Mountain

By Rosalie Maggio

O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! —Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1880)

Beans, spinach, peas, carrots, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, radishes, ruby ...