From the September 21, 2018 Edition
One in every nine people in the world lacks access to clean, safe water. Every 21 seconds, another child dies from a preventable waterborne illness. The teen and pre-teen girls of the Mountain Girls Club …
From the September 21, 2018 Edition
By Jeff Zimmerman, Patric Hedlund and the TME team
The fall fire-weather pattern is here, with strong winds, low relative humidity and high temperatures. Two fires were fought intensely last week. One resulted in an …
From the September 14, 2018 Edition
The Pine Mountain Club Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is holding CERT Academy from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on three Saturdays, Sept. 22, Oct. 6 and Oct. 27, for those wishing to join a …
From the September 14, 2018 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
Big cheers and blowing horns from passing motorists greeted a small group of patriots along Cuddy Valley Road on September 11, as they headed east from Piñon Pines for the 18th …
From the September 14, 2018 Edition
Women’s and Girls’ Fund opens 2019 grant cycle with call for letters of intent—Up to $50,000 to be awarded in 2019 for Kern County education and training
November 9 is the deadline for submitting a …
From the September 7, 2018 Edition
By Peggy Hoyt-Voelker, PMC
This pretty little flower is spotted knapweed. Its roots exude a chemical that inhibits the root growth of neighboring plants, which kills them.
These weeds cannot even be put with …
From the September 7, 2018 Edition
Saturday, Sept. 8 11 a.m. Pine Mountain Village Gazebo meeting still on
By Patric Hedlund, TME
Friends and patients of the Pine Mountain Health Center were alarmed over this recent …
From the August 31, 2018 Edition
By Terry Bert, Moose Lodge
We had so much fun at the Great Moose Lodge Chili Competition last week. There were four teams of two cooking chili.
They started at 8 a.m. and cooked …
From the August 24, 2018 Edition
Here is a list of the Fiesta Days prize winners from Tammie Goddard of Mountain Top Video who organized the opportunity drawing. “Thank you to all the businesses and individuals who donated all these wonderful …
From the August 17, 2018 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
A house fire was reported just after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 801 Lebec Road in Lebec, which is the Gentle Jungle compound.
The actual fire was burning …