Beware of Icy Roads
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Gary Meyer
The message here is: Slow down when the road is icy.
A rollover occurred on Monday, Dec. 6 at about 8 a.m., only yards away from where an SUV had rolled over …
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Santa Sightings Around the Mountain
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
Merry Christmas • Happy Holy Days Feliz Navidad • Joyeux Noël
A young Santa sat in his sleigh pondering. Around him stood his merry team of reindeer and one very special dog. Young actors …
Superintendent Shelly Mason Dies After Lingering Illness
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Patric Hedlund FRAZIER PARK (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.)—If anyone seemed to have immortality within her grasp, it was Rochelle ‘Shelly’ Mason. And if doing what one loves is the formula for …
Grapevine Open, Area Roads Icy
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
UPDATE-FRAZIER PARK (Thursday, Dec. 30, 1 p.m.)—Skies are clear today, but ice is slippery on shady sections of raodways. Most roads are plowed and cindered. Motorists are advised to drive slowly and to be wary …
Grateful Mom Says ‘Thanks’
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Georgia Tuomy
Last week my son Cole Walling, 23 was involved in a car accident that shook my world and that of his many friends.
The brakes of the old panel truck he was …
ICE Confirms 5 Seized in Raids
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Patric Hedlund
Officials have confirmed that five people were seized Friday, Dec. 3 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Rumors alleging that 30 people were taken into custody appear to be untrue.
ICE …
Fleeing Sacramento Gunman Captured on Grapevine by CHP
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Patric Hedlund
A gunman, fleeing after a fierce south Sacramento shootout that took the lives of two people, was captured yesterday on the Grapevine south of Gorman, near Quail Lake. California Highway Patrol officers …
Winds, Rain Bring Down Trees
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
State of Emergency Proclaimed
Wild gusts of high winds (reported up to 85 miles per hour) and torrential rains uprooted a large pine tree and hurled it onto the home of Lisa and Scott Parsons …
A Modest Proposal for Keeping the Lights on
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Gary Meyer
On Tuesday, Dec. 21, as Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) members reviewed solutions to the quickly approaching blackout of streetscape lighting in Frazier Park’s business district, commercial property owner Emilie Wainright made a …
Two Years in Prison for Lebec Phone Line Vandals
From the December 24, 2010 Edition
By Patric Hedlund
Roger Pool, 39 and Heath Poff, 37 of Lebec have both pled no contest to felony vandalism for cutting the telephone wires into O’Neil Canyon on November 17. They also pled no …