Breaking News: Fire erupts on Mt. Piños, protection for Nordic Base requested

FRAZIER PARK, CA (Monday, Aug. 12 at 11:55 a.m.)—Preliminary reports indicate that crews have established a line around the fire and expect containment in about 30 minutes. According to Mountain Enterprise editor Patric Hedlund, who …
Breaking News: Car vs Bear on Cuddy Valley Road is warning to all
Community Reporter Finn Myggen was coming home late on Frazier Mountain Park Road Friday evening. As he headed past Lake of the Woods and into Cuddy Valley about 9 p.m. “heading downhill where all the …
Fiesta Days is all about Families

For the first time that anyone could remember, maybe nine years or longer, the $100 first-prize marked trout was finally caught during the Fiesta Days Fishing Derby…but it never would have happened if six-year-old Jameson …
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 …
D.A. drops spousal battery charge against Mark Salvaggio, advisor to Supervisor Couch

By Patric Hedlund
Kern County District Attorney Lisa Green released a statement this week about a decision not to bring charges of spousal battery against the constituent services director for Kern County…
Lake of the Woods to truck water
By Patric Hedlund
Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company has begun to truck water into the community to maintain its tank reserves, residents said this week. Customers of the besieged water company have alerted …
Hearing rescheduled for real estate broker to Nov. 19-20
By Gary Meyer
A hearing against Milton Hudson of All Seasons Realty on accusations brought by the California Department of Real Estate has been rescheduled to November 19 and 20 at the Office of Administrative …
Editorial: It’s all about the children….isn’t it?
By Patric Hedlund The item tumbled into my in-box this week: “Kern County Community Reading Project Seeks Volunteers.” Partially funded by United Way of Kern County, the project recruits and trains community members to become …
Lebec Water District violated requirements to report high fluoride levels to the public
By Mountain Enterprise staff
Last week The Mountain Enterprise reported that Lebec County Water District (LCWD) had high fluoride levels in drinking water (“Lebec Water District lab tests show high fluoride levels”). California Department of …
COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Upcoming & Ongoing plus Regular Weekly and Monthly Events
Ongoing
•Lebec County Water District Board of Directors candidates must file a Declaration of Candidacy by August 9 at Kern County Elections Office at 1115 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301 (See article on page 17 …
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Discovering that luck has many faces
By Reagan Thompson, 13
My friend Brittany Wolfe and I woke up at 5:30 a.m. from our sleepover, getting ready for a good day on Sunday, August 4. Both of us were really tired, ...
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