Week’s Highs To Be in the 80s—National Weather Service
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 7:30 a.m.)—This is a good week to get busy and finish up a lot of those projects that we just can’t seem to get done when it …
Breaking News: Parents Meet with Consultants about ETUSD Schools
Frazier Park, CA (Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 at 10:30 p.m.)—About 55 parents and concerned community members met with consultants until after 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20 at Frazier Park School. They discussed their aspirations for …
Good News: School Trustee’s Mars Project Selected by NASA for 2016 Landing on Red Planet
Frazier Park, CA (Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 at 2 p.m.)—Ken Hurst of Piñon Pines was excited today to learn that the project he has been working on for nearly two years has been given the …
Breaking News: Mike Cook Arrested for Attempted Burglary
Pine Mountain (August 17, 2012 at 5 p.m.)—According to a news release by Sgt. Mark Brown of the Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park Substation, Michael Cook was arrested for attempted burglary and possession of methamphetamine …
Smoke Jumpers fight lightning fires
By Patric Hedlund and Gary Meyer
Skies exploded with crashing thunder and strobing lightning as a tropical storm cell pounded the western end of the Mountain Communities with heavy rains Saturday, Aug. 11. Flooding water …
‘They’re Baaaack’- Cuddy Valley burglaries resume
By Patric Hedlund
The Schott family of Cuddy Valley woke with a jolt Saturday, Aug. 4 at 12:59 a.m.
A motion alarm was sounding, and it wasn’t stopping. Daughter Rhonda Zimmerman shot out of bed. …
Editorial: From ambush to abuse of office
School board president walks out for third time in four meetings…and now it is becoming contagious
By Patric Hedlund, Editor
We finally got to the flag salute at the El Tejon Unified School District …
Mountain’s bird life to be explored on Thursday
By Susan Amon
On Thursday, Aug. 23, the Ridge Route Museum presents another in their series of Night Talks. This one will be held at 6 p.m at the museum’s outdoor amphitheater.
Lynn Stafford, an …
Meeting on Closing a School Confirmed for Monday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m.
The El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees held a special meeting on August 15 to do some of the business they had not accomplished on the aborted meeting of August 8. The …
Visit the Center of the World Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18-19
Center of the World Festival is Friday, Saturday and Sunday Aug.17-19 at Pine Mountain Village gazebo
If you’ve always wanted to know what it is like to be at the center of the world, this …
News and Features
Kern County is hiring again
Advance Budget Advocates Hiring
By Patric Hedlund
It appears that Kern County will be hiring again. After four years of austerity and continual cutbacks, the Kern County Administrative Office released a Recommended Budget for Fiscal ...
Additional candidates sign in for school board and health care district
New names have been added to the list of candidates for local elective office. These are the candidates as of Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 5 p.m. No additional candidates have registered.
El Tejon Unified ...
Local church youth help homeless in San Diego
By Pastor Rick Rivette, Pine Mountain Christian Community Church
On Sunday morning July 29, eight high school students, seven junior high students and three adult leaders gathered at Pine Mountain Christian Community Church for worship, ...
$80 bus passes anger some parents
By Gary Meyer
A cluster of parents in front of Frazier Park Elementary School on Monday, Aug. 13 told reporters their objections to school bus fees. On June 27, El Tejon Unified School District (ETUSD) ...
Run to the Pines–the festival where everyone goes home a winner
By Patric Hedlund
Kris Vosburgh of Culver City and Pine Mountain was out at the Run to the Pines 2012 Car Show Saturday, Aug. 11 with his daughter Lindsay, 14. They were appreciating Eli Meigs’ ...
Brush Fire Being Fought in Neenach-Gorman Area
Neenach / Gorman, CA (August 18, 2012 at 4 p.m.)—A fire is being fought by about six helicopters in the hills just to the south of Quail Lake near Interstate 5. There are no barricades ...
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