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Mountain Memories: Vignettes from the Past

From the November 1, 2019 Edition

If Halloween is an opportunity to face our fears, it appears Stanley Enscoe of Frazier Park has found a haunting one. He called The Mountain Enterprise to say he wanted to confirm an item he’d …

Family Resource Center Plans Strategy

From the November 1, 2019 Edition

Please join the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center for a Strategic Planning Meeting, next Thursday, Nov. 7 from 3:15 to 6 p.m. at the Frazier Park library.

What is that? We want to hear your …

Who was Lisa Ward? — Part 5, Notes from the Family

From the October 25, 2019 Edition

Lisa Ward was born on October 30, 1969—one day before Halloween. She was a joyful, energetic child who always loved costumes—as a ladybug when she was at Frazier Park School, in her graduation robe from …

Call me in 10,000 years

From the October 11, 2019 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

The South Kern Cemetery District met at Frazier Park Library September 17. The candid camera of Lebec’s Dennis Penna was there to catch board meeting highlights.

The board ran through its …

FPPUD has found its Mojo

From the October 4, 2019 Edition

Frazier Park Public Utility District has important work to do, keeping a whole town from going dry. But General Manager Jonnie Allison had an unexpected tale to tell to the FPPUD board of directors last …

Crazy winter we’re having this fall

From the October 4, 2019 Edition

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Monday began with a 14°F dawn this week. That is what Rick Throckmorton’s weather station told him. He sent readouts to prove it [see photo below].

Indoors, on Sunday, his family …

Three stranded bikers rescued in Lockwood Valley

From the September 27, 2019 Edition

Sheriff’s ATV sped up the search

Three men from Los Angeles set out Sunday, Sept. 15, on motorcycles from their Hungry Valley campsite. Tailai and Jeffrey Ting, 61 and 30, from Chino, and Wanjun Ai, …

Caltrans: Watch out for wildlife

From the September 20, 2019 Edition

This is Watch Out For Wildlife Week. Caltrans and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) warn drivers be alert now through December to avoid collisions with wild animals.

The rate of wildlife-vehicle collisions …

In Loving Memory of Karen Bailey

From the September 20, 2019 Edition

…whose tireless dedication made #58 and paramedics here inevitable.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? — George Eliot, 1871 [contributed by Rosalie Maggio]

To …