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Wildfire Awareness Week Begins with Controversy

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Wildfire Awareness Week is May 4-10, and there are few places in the country more ‘wildfire aware’ than these Mountain Communities.

At least 85 per cent of the population evacuated as the …

CWC Shares Favorite Apple Recipes

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

By Donna Van Hooser

"Apple Bites" is the theme of next month’s Christian Women’s Club luncheon to be held Tuesday May 13 at 11 a.m. in the Frazier Mountain Park Community Building.

Along with the …

Fire Science Class Wins High Praise

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

By Steve Talbot, KCSOS

A different philosophy is applied to the old saying, "Where there is smoke, there is fire" at Frazier Mountain High School. Students dressed in U.S. Forest Service yellow and green fire …

Scott Shropshire Jailed for Assault, Parole Revoked

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

Carl Scott Shropshire, 48 of Frazier Park who has appeared in 14 criminal cases in Superior Court in Kern County since 1989 was arrested in Bakersfield on April 1 after being charged with assaulting a …

Barn Sale To Aid Lost Pets

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

Who’s Caring for Abandoned And Stray Pets On the Mountain? By Mar Preston

Kern County Animal Control commonly ignores calls about strays up here and continues to destroy most of the cats and dogs left …

Badger Band Auction Brings in the BUCK$

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

$2,350 Raised for Music Program

Story and photos by Patric Hedlund

I followed delivery of a four foot stack of Mike’s pizza boxes into the Frazier Park School cafeteria, Saturday, April 19. Half an acre …

Freedom of Speech for Students Upheld

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

Journalism Teacher Protection Bill Sails Through Senate

A measure that would protect high school and college journalism advisers from being disciplined or removed from their positions for refusing to censor stories published in student newspapers …

Some County Fees To Rise

From the April 25, 2008 Edition

Michael Watson of Watson Brothers Construction covered this meeting in Frazier Park for our readers. Turns out he was the only one who showed up to greet the public officials who trekked up …