Breaking News: New Animal Control Director Named for Kern

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA (Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 at 4:50 p.m.)–Jen Woodard of Los Angeles-based Best Friends Pet Adoption Center and Spay/Neuter Clinic has been appointed as Kern County Animal Control Director, effective October 1.

Woodard was …

Sports Update Falcons Win First Varsity Game

LEBEC, CA (Friday, August 24, 2012)— The Frazier Mountain High School Falcon Football varsity team hosted Sun Valley High School on Friday, Aug. 24 at Falcon Field in its first pre-league game of the season. …

Fastest American Cyclist Works in Lebec

Fastest American Cyclist Works in Lebec

Lebec’s Olympic Firefighter

By The Mountain Enterprise staff

Lebec firefighter James “Jimmy” Watkins, 29 made America’s best showing in 12 years in the men’s Olympic sprint cycling events on August 4-5. He took sixth place …

Comment: The law and the public’s right to know

We need our local boards, but will they learn to follow the law? By Gary Meyer, Publisher The Mountain Enterprise

We need our local water board and school board members, and we need the services …

Mike Cook arrested for burglary and meth possession

Mike Cook arrested for burglary and meth possession

Sergeant Mark Brown of the Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park substation announced that Michael Cook was arrested for attempted burglary and possession of methamphetamine Friday, Aug. 17. According to the sergeant’s statement, at about 1:35 …

Artists strike gold at Center of the World

Artists strike gold at Center of the World

Artists with provocative ideas and audiences in quest of thoughtful creativity spiced with a dash of humor struck gold last week at the Center of the World Festival. The annual event, affectionately known as COWfest, …

News and Features

School trustee injured in solo car accident

By Patric Hedlund

Anita Anderson of Piñon Pines says it was her love of western incense cedar that led to an accident Thursday, Aug. 16. She was leaving a residence in Lebec after providing homebased ...

Mountain Chamber is on the job….

We received a series of updates from the president and a board member of the Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce this month, so we’ll turn this space over to their reports on issues that affect ...

Broken pipe floods new library

By Patric Hedlund

Behind every stack of books there is a flood of knowledge, but when a pipe fitting broke in the janitor’s closet of the new Frazier Park Library last Wednesday, a flood of ...

Coach’s Corner

First home football game is this Friday, Aug. 24

Entertaining halftimes

The Frazier Mountain High School Falcons will have our first real game this Friday, at home, against Sun Valley. It is a Varsity-only contest, ...