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<B> <I><font color=red>BREAKING NEWS: </font></I></B> Planning Commission Votes 5-0  to Limit Size of Frazier Park Estates Development

BREAKING NEWS: Planning Commission Votes 5-0 to Limit Size of Frazier Park Estates Development

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BREAKING NEWS: Watson to Hold Public Meeting on Municipal Advisory Council

From Supervisor Watson's press release:

FRAZIER PARK (Thursday, Oct. 8, 5:10 p.m.) Fourth District Supervisor Ray Watson will hold a public meeting regarding the formation of a Mountain Communities Municipal Advisory Council (MCMAC) to serve the Frazier Mountain Communities of Pine Mountain Club, Lebec, Frazier Park, Fort Tejon/Tejon Village, Pinon Pines and Lake of the Woods.

The meeting will be held October 29, 2009...

BREAKING NEWS: Frazier Park Estates Developer Submits Revised Plan

UPDATE: (Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, 9:26 a.m.)—Kern County Planning Department Division Chief Lorelei Oviatt sent out the following note to a list of those who have been inquiring, including The Mountain Enterprise, about the status of tonight's Planning Commission hearing (7 p.m. 1115 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, in the Board of Supervisors' chambers). The hearing is still firmly scheduled and no further...

Blog Notes: Party Favors in the Tejon Mountain Village Development Agreement

 Party Favors in the Tejon Mountain Village Development Agreement

Blog notes by Patric Hedlund [1:15 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009]

There are a few party favors hidden among the 30,000 or so pages of data whisked through the Tejon Mountain Village pipeline. I wasn't able to analyze and report about countless issues of interest in advance of the vote.

The...

<B> <I><font color=red>NEWS ALERT:</font></I></B> Oak Tree Removal for Library Rattles Some Residents

NEWS ALERT: Oak Tree Removal for Library Rattles Some Residents

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, 5:30 p.m.)—Frazier Park resident Gary...

BREAKING NEWS: Tejon Mountain Village Wins Unanimous Approval

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (October 5, 2009, 5:35 p.m.)  With a 5-0 vote, the Kern County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported certification of the Tejon Mountain Village (TMV) development at about 5 p.m. today, after an all-day public hearing which began at 9 a.m. Mountain Community residents from Pine Mountain, Pinon Pines, Frazier Park and Lebec made the 100-mile round trip drive to...

BREAKING NEWS: Emails Flooding County Servers Opposing Tejon Mountain Village Called 'Spam'

By Patric Hedlund

Frazier Park, Calif. (Friday, Sept. 2, 5:45 p.m.)— On the last two working days before the Kern County Board of Supervisors' special hearing on Tejon Mountain Village (Monday, 9 a.m. 1115 Truxtun Ave. in Bakersfield),  well over 14,000 emails to members of the board have flooded into their email accounts carrying messages that oppose the development.

TRAFFIC NEWS: Local LAPD Officer Injured in I-5 Crash

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11:17 a.m.) According to Sergeant Darrell Brooks of the California Highway Patrol, Ft. Tejon station, a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer, Timothy Kay, 42 of Frazier Park, was moderately injured in an early morning crash on Interstate 5.

Officer Kay was headed home after working all night when around 6:30 a.m. his motorcycle collided with the...

<B><I>TRAFFIC NEWS</B></i>: If There Is No Accident ? Why is the I-5 Backed Up <I>This</I> Time?

TRAFFIC NEWS: If There Is No Accident ? Why is the I-5 Backed Up This Time?

(October 5, 2009 at 3:15 p.m.) As she was driving home from...

TRAFFIC NEWS: Big Rig Diesel Spill Backs Up Traffic on Northbound I-5

GRAPEVINE, Calif. (Thursday, Oct. 1, 5:18 p.m.)--Due to a big rig accident and diesel spill, all lanes of northbound Interstate 5 near the Grapevine exit were blocked for two hours on Thursday. A 1997 PeterBilt 3-axle truck and trailer, driven by John Manuel Salas, Jr., 38 of El Paso, Texas, was hauling a 50,000-pound earthmover/scraper when the brakes overheated, according to California...

TRAFFIC NEWS: Head-on Crash in Lake of the Woods

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Calif. (Thursday, Oct. 1, 6:30 p.m.)—A head-on crash occurred at Lakewood Drive and Foothill in Lake of the Woods, according to Mark Ehly of the California Highway Patrol.The driver, Wayne Robert Harms Miller, 19 of Frazier Park, was not injured although his silver 2006 Chevy Colorado pick-up had “major front-end damage,” Ehly said. Miller was arrested for...

The Frazier Mountain Community Celebration

The Frazier Mountain Community Celebration

The First Annual "Strolling Saturday" took place Saturday, Sept. 26

The...

News and Features

Mountain Artists Shine at County Fair

PROFESSIONAL BEST OF SHOW

A Lockwood Valley artist won four awards at the Kern County Fair this weekend, including three first place ribbons and two Best...

Hot Off the Grapevine: Man Shot, then Arrested for Paraphernalia Possession

By Patric Hedlund

In yet another story of "things drifting in off the Grapevine" to our Mountain Communities, on Thursday, Sept. 17, at about 1 p.m.,...

McCASA's Fight to Stop Substance Abuse Among Youth Has Just Begun

By Katy Penland

Anne Weber, president of the Mountain Communities Coalition Against Substance Abuse (McCASA) opened the coalition's September 23 meeting at Frazier Park School with...

The Mysteries Of Bitter Creek Explored

Oct. 3 , 7 p.m. Sierra Club

Bitter Creek Wildlife Refuge and its inhabitants are the topics of the presentation at the Saturday, Oct. 3 meeting...



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