Community

Food Program Contacts

From the May 15, 2020 Edition

Frazier Mountain Family Resource Center—Food Bank, available to all those who need it; sign-up data is not given to any other party; call for appointment: 661.245.4303, Monday–Thursday 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m.

Commodities—Salvation Army …

June 1 is due date for wildfire clearing

From the May 8, 2020 Edition

By Kevin Woten, Mountain Communities CERT

The weather is getting warmer, so this is the moment when we all need to step up to fire-harden our properties for wildfire season. We need to clear brush, …

Reminder: Census 2020

From the May 1, 2020 Edition

We count all who live behind your front door…

Even cousins or uncles up on the third floor.

Kids, be sure to ask the grown-ups in your home if they have completed the census. It’s …

Clock ticking for public comment on power shutoffs

From the May 1, 2020 Edition

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has a proposal for ways to improve and update the rules utilities must follow for Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events during wildfire season later this year. The proposal …

FP Sheriff’s deputies praised

From the May 1, 2020 Edition

Lebec resident impressed with their speedy response

By Marcy Axness, TME

“I don’t think the Frazier Park sheriff’s [deputies] get enough credit,” Gayle Ryan said last week. She had been awakened by someone pounding on …

The ‘K’ In Thank You

From the April 17, 2020 Edition

Masked Scrappers Report:  Liz Buchroeder of Pine Mountain Club said she was struggling this weekend to get up the energy to make more masks. She was tired. But then, as she wrote in her morning …

Update: Kern County services downsized due to covid-19

From the April 10, 2020 Edition

How the state of emergency has changed the shape of agencies serving you

There seems to be no aspect of life that is not altered by the covid-19 pandemic. Supervisor Zack Scrivner ent out an …