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Women Arrested for Marijuana Cultivation

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

By Sgt. Bryan Armendariz

On September 20 Kern County Sheriff’s Office Deputies from the Frazier Park Substation responded to the 3000 block of Mt. Pinos Way, in Frazier Park, investigating a peace disturbance.

Deputies contacted …

New SPCA Gives Visions And Goals

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

By Mar Preston

Newly organized with pending nonprofit tax status, the people behind Mountain Communities SPCA have been around for many years, quietly doing animal rescue work in the mountain communities. The group is now …

Ft. Tejon CHP Makes Pot Arrest

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

At 11:35 p.m. on September 22, Fort Tejon Area California High Patrol officers Tom Bey and Cory Dawson stopped a 1998 Lexus LX470 for traveling in excess of the 70 miles per hour maximum speed …

Too Funny Not to Share Department

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country …

Tax Measure K Dialogue Gains Energy, Unity

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

On Friday, Sept. 19 a forum was held in Pine Mountain about the “Tax Measure K” initiative which will appear on the November 4 ballot. If it passes with a 2/3 margin, the first firefighter …

Identity Theft Is the Subject of AARP Lunch Talk Oct. 2

From the September 26, 2008 Edition

By Gigi Day

The September meeting of Chapter 2915 AARP will be Thursday, Oct. 2, at noon in the community center of Frazier Mountain Park.

The speaker will be Suellyn L’Dera from Antelope Bank who …

Scam Artists Strike LOW Family for $6,723

From the September 19, 2008 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

When the letter came, the first thing Richard and Renea Beal thought was that their good deeds for others were being somehow rewarded. “It said we had won $250,000,” Renea remembers vividly. …

Air District Prevails in National Suit over Construction Emissions

From the September 19, 2008 Edition

By Janelle Schneider, Valley Air District

In yet another endorsement of the Valley Air District’s landmark regulation of development-associated air pollution, the U.S. District Court in Fresno this week struck down a lawsuit contesting the …