Community

Foreclosure Hotline Helps Tenants

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

By Dean Preston, Tenants Together

A statewide organization for renters’ rights is launching a new hotline for tenants in foreclosure situations. Tenants Together announced the hotline to address a growing problem–the harassment and displacement of …

Update on Gigi Day’s Recovery

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

Update Sunday, March 1—By Bill Day

Gigi can now put 80% weight on her left side, where she had the broken hip, and 20% on the right side where she had the crushed ankle. This …

UPDATE: Lilac Festival Status

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

PINE MOUNTAIN (March 3, 2009, 10:40 a.m.)—“The Lilac Festival is on. More when I have a plan together,” Realtor Gary Wilson wrote in an email Tuesday, March 3 at 6 a.m., adding: …

UPDATE: I-5 Tractor Trailer Fire, Hazmat Spill Cleared

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

UPDATE Frazier Park, CA, March 4, 2009, 8:45 a.m.—The remaining two lanes of the northbound I-5 were opened at 6:25 this morning, as cleanup crews finished operations at the site of the truck fire and …

Worker Falls at Tejon Ranch Pastoria Power Plant

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

A maintenance worker fell about 20 feet from an internal walkway inside an air filtration unit at the Pastoria Power Plan in Lebec on Monday, Feb. 23 at about 11:50 a.m. About 13 Kern County …

Firefighter Paramedics Report for Duty Early

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

The new firefighter-paramedic program fought for and won by citizens of Pine Mountain does not officially begin until March 1, but three paramedics have quietly begun to get into the routine by …

Martin Kegel Hooks A Whopper

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

By Pam Sturdevant

Martin Kegel of Frazier Park hooked this massive 17 pound trout on Monday, Feb. 2 at Lake Evans in Buena Vista Park (25 miles southwest of Bakersfield, off Highway 119).

As he …

Majority at Meeting Say They Favor MAC

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

By Gary Meyer

A crowd of about 75 people filed into the Frazier Mountain Park Community Center on Monday evening, Feb. 23 to learn about the Municipal Advisory Council proposal for the Mountain Communities (MCMAC). …

Winter Wonders up Walnut Trail

From the February 27, 2009 Edition

Naturalist Leads Free Tour This Saturday

On Saturday, Feb. 28 from 12-2:30 p.m. join Naturalist for You Joel Robinson on a tour of upper Walnut Trail in the San Emigdio Mountains. This tour is in …