From the April 12, 2019 Edition
A senior daycare service through Kern County was available at Frazier Mountain Park’s Community Center until about 11 years ago. All those resources are now focused in Bakersfield. Tammy Rowan of the Family Resource Center …
From the April 12, 2019 Edition
Wicked winds from the north moved some big stuff
By Marcy Axness, TME
Jim Stoughton of Los Padres Estates called to tell us that on the night of Tuesday, April 9, the wind tossed his …
From the April 12, 2019 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
When you live in rattlesnake territory as we do here in the Mountain Communities, you take precautions. You wear tall boots for hiking. You’re careful in tall grass. You don’t reach …
From the April 12, 2019 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
When James Bufford (38) of Frazier Park went to trial in May of 2018, he was facing a possible prison sentence of 60 years on three felony counts of lewd and …
From the April 12, 2019 Edition
Right: This handsome, juvenile red-tailed hawk was photographed at the Gorman sag pond on Gorman Post Road by Liz Buchroeder. The pond is on the San Andreas Fault, ecological biologist Lynn Stafford reminds us, with …
From the April 5, 2019 Edition
Friends, family and some who don’t even know Tom Roberts donated $1,300 on Sunday at a benefit toward his recovery.
Roberts was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on March 26. On April 2 he …
From the April 5, 2019 Edition
By G. Meyer with P. Hedlund, TME
Twenty two years ago, Lebec resident Richard (Rick) Richards shot and killed Curtis Clark at Clark’s home on Hayride Road in Lebec.
Richards, who was 47 years old …
From the April 5, 2019 Edition
A Pine Mountain Club couple had life-long friends from New Mexico coming to visit three weeks ago, just before one of them was due to go for cancer surgery. It was a loving visit, at …
From the March 29, 2019 Edition
Watch for McCASA ‘Tool Kit,’ coming soon to local mailboxes
By Jill Turner, TME
Marijuana Tool Kits
This month the Mountain Communities Coalition Against Substance Abuse (McCASA) will mail 500 postcard “Tool Kits” with information …
From the March 22, 2019 Edition
Next week over 70 educators will gather at the Tejon Ranch Conservancy for a two-day workshop on teaching science journaling. The workshop teacher will be author, science educator and artist John Muir Laws.
The conservancy-sponsored …