From the September 28, 2007 Edition
Camp Justice
Donato Ventura of Lake of the Woods is a retired community college career counselor and a former farm worker. For over forty years, he writes, he’s volunteered to work "alongside Cesar Chavez and …
From the September 28, 2007 Edition
"Good things are happening in this, the greatest country on God’s earth," Leon Frankamp, a Mountain Community resident, writes from Louisiana this week.
Frankamp and his wife Ramona of Pine Mountain are helping to build …
From the September 28, 2007 Edition
Sgt. Bryan Armendariz said he would resume Sheriff’s Log dispatches and he has. Former New York Police Department officer Jim McDevitt, now of Pine Mountain, takes up his pen and files his Neighborhood Watch column …
From the September 28, 2007 Edition
By Pam Sturdevant
In September, the Rotary Club of Frazier Park and the Mountain Communities celebrated Literacy Month by presenting personal dictionaries to all students in third grade classes at Frazier Park School.
Members of …
From the September 28, 2007 Edition
By Gary Meyer
Two private ambulance companies have been making changes over the past three weeks that will affect ambulance services to residents of the Mountain Communities.
In a September 4 memo addressed to "Ventura …
From the September 21, 2007 Edition
The 150th Anniversary Of California’s Largest Earthquake Centered Right Here
Tuesday, Sept. 25 7 p.m. Frazier Mountain Park Community Center
The largest earthquake in California’s recorded history was centered right here in this region 150 …
From the September 21, 2007 Edition
Shortly after presenting an enlightening Los Padres Bear Aware program about ways to "educate" wild bears not to stray into human homes, we heard from a reader about a serious rumor that had caused concern …
From the September 21, 2007 Edition
Gorman Learning Center Removed from Consideration
The California Charter Schools Association announced Wednesday, Sept. 19 that Pine Mountain Learning Center (PMLC) has become one of the nation’s first Certified Charter Schools. PMLC is operated …
From the September 21, 2007 Edition
"For law enforcement, Frazier Park is the gem of Kern County in my opinion," Sgt. Bryan Armenderiz, new head of the Frazier Park substation said in an interview Wednesday, Sept. 19. "It is a pleasure …
From the September 21, 2007 Edition
Phone customers with the "242" exchange in Pine Mountain have been wondering this month why their relatives, friends and business associates keep hanging up on them. Is it personal? Was it something I said?
Many …