Community Input

Signs of the times

From the February 28, 2014 Edition

This is an open letter to District 4 Kern County Supervisor’s field representative, Ryan Schulz.

January 30, 2014 Dear Mr. Shultz:

1) The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a United States …

Holiday Valley Volunteers take to the streets in Neenach

From the February 21, 2014 Edition

Report and photo by Jeff Zimmerman Volunteer Coordinator, Neenach

Eight volunteers stepped up to the plate to pick up roadside trash in Neenach on February 11, as part of the Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program. The Holiday …

AB109: Cleaner or Crook?

From the February 14, 2014 Edition

February 6, 2014 Dear Editor:

As I was reading your editorial about the convicted thief and his girlfriend who wanted to do housecleaning and handyman work, possibly to set up homes for later robberies, I really …

Church vs. State

From the February 14, 2014 Edition

February 8, 2014 Dear Editor:

I want to thank George ‘Thomas’ Garrigues and The Mountain Enterprise for letting us know about what I see as the forced intrusion of religion into our public domain [“LCWD …

Seabiscuit, Maggie n’ Mondale

From the February 14, 2014 Edition

February 9, 2014 Dear Editor:

I was very sorry to read of the death of Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale. As a member of the Citizens Stamp Committee, she was most …

Fire Hazard

From the February 7, 2014 Edition

February 2, 2014 Dear Editor:

The public should be aware of a hazard with fluorescent “screw in” bulbs. I smelled something funny when taking a short nap (retired folks can do that).

I looked all …

Thomas Jefferson

From the February 7, 2014 Edition

January 31, 2014 Dear Editor:

I shake my head in disbelief. It is simply amazing how members of the Lebec County Water District (LCWD) could have grown to adulthood without having learned the first thing …

Two Bars

From the February 7, 2014 Edition

February 1, 2014 Dear Editor:

I had one bar for months prior to the cell phone tower going up in the Pine Mountain community. I now have two bars and my phone indicates 4G LTE, which is …

Note to our readers:

From the January 31, 2014 Edition

This week we received an unusually large number of telephone calls and contacts from readers about two concerns. See our report about restitution for real estate fraud.

 As to the second concern…

Release of Mike …

Proud of Our Town

From the January 24, 2014 Edition

January 20, 2014 Dear Editor:

Our Frazier Mountain Park is not the same since Russ Siebert and David Mansel were let go. Before, it was always clean. Russ always mulched the leaves as they fell. …