Community Input

FMHS Alum Makes Dean’s List

From the March 4, 2022 Edition

February 28, 2022 Dear Editor:

We’re happy to announce Frazier Park’s Shawnau Johnson was named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List at York College. This status is awarded to students who have earned a grade …

Logging’s Effects on Forest Life?

From the February 25, 2022 Edition

February 22, 2022 Dear Editor:

I just read your logging article [“Verdicts in Tecuya Ridge and Cuddy Valley appeals cut two ways on tree thinning”] about verdicts by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on …

Rare Finds On Mountain: Section 8 Housing

From the February 25, 2022 Edition

February 16, 2022 Dear Editor:

We at the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center (MCFRC) were curious to find out more about Section 8 subsidized housing up here, so we’ve been corresponding with the Housing Authority …

Zoom Access to POA Meetings = Equal Access

From the February 18, 2022 Edition

February 15, 2022 Dear Editor:

Thanks in part to your January 28 article about me and my petition [“Sarada Lewis petitions for Zoom meetings to return as option for PMC residents”], as of today, 68 …

To Mask or Not to Mask is a Growing Issue

From the February 18, 2022 Edition

February 12, 2022 Dear Editor:

There was a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) class up here today by the fire station. People were not wearing masks.

I don’t care if they had their vaccinations and …

Choice and Consequences?

From the February 18, 2022 Edition

January 30, 2022 Dear Editor:

Unvaccinated covid sufferers should be directed by hospital staff to the back of the line. It is unfair to deny or postpone medical services to the vaccinated because of the …

Illegal Pot Grows In Western Antelope Valley

From the February 11, 2022 Edition

February 1, 2022 Dear Editor:

In response to the article published in The Mountain Enterprise on January 28, 2022  [“Focus of L.A. County’s illegal marijuana Zoom forum not on West Antelope Valley”], I have a different outlook …

First Amendment Is For Everyone

From the February 11, 2022 Edition

February 6, 2022 Dear Editor:

Your excellent OpEd, “Supreme Court Weakens First Amendment Right to Film Law Enforcement in Public Without Fear of Retaliation” [February 4, 2022], reminds me of the weekend I spent in …

EDD Fraud: Up Close, Personal

From the February 11, 2022 Edition

February 2, 2022 Dear Editor:

In December I received notice in the mail from the State of California Employment Development Department (EDD) saying that I had opened up a claim with them (presumably an unemployment …

Super News!

From the February 4, 2022 Edition

January 24, 2022

Dear Editor:

We thought you might enjoy this engagement announcement of our granddaughter, Kaylee Lumsden. While she is not known to many in the Mountain Communities, you did a feature a while …