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What is 420?

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

A more terrible night than that of April 20, 2009 would be hard to imagine for Mountain Community parents. In Pine Mountain, where Michael’s family lives, distressed friends and neighbors gathered in …

Television News Gets it Wrong…Terribly Wrong

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

Reports issued by a Bakersfield television station—saying that rescue crews had left 15-year-old Michael Manning alive on a mountainside overnight, then returned in the morning to find he had died—are untrue. Southern Kern Search and …

News Update Man Stabbed in Frazier Park

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

FRAZIER PARK (Monday, April 27, 2009 4 p.m.)—Witnesses report that last night, shortly after 10 p.m., a man who lives in the 800 block of Santa Rosa Trail was stabbed three times in the chest.

NEWS ALERT: Southbound I-5 Lanes at Grapevine Open Again

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (UPDATE: Sunday, April 27, 2009, 5:30)—Southbound I-5 lanes at Grapevine are open again after closure this afternoon of lanes 3 and 4 following a mobile home fire that spread to the hillside. …

Nature Fest III Is the Place To Be Saturday

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

Saturday, April 25 • Free • 12 to 3:30 p.m. Frazier Park Elementary School

By Mary Ann Lockhart

You will meet some special guests at Nature Fest III, such as a six-foot Honduran iguana. He …

Services Planned for Forest Ann Sjoberg

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

Forest Ann Sjoberg, 86 owner of Frazier Mountain Real Estate in Frazier Park since 1977, passed away on April 15 in Bakersfield. She had been ill with congestive heart failure.

Sjoberg was one of the …

NEWS ALERT: Water To Be Turned Off Thursday. April 30

From the April 24, 2009 Edition

According to Lebec County Water District, water will be turned off for Frazier Mountain Mobile Home Park and the Frykholm residence on Thursday, April 30 from 10 a.m. ’til 1 p.m. for scheduled maintenance work. …