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: Man Dies After Being Tasered in Frazier Park
FRAZIER PARK, California—Tuesday,, Feb. 26A local Mass is being planned for Garrett Sean Farn at Our Lady of the Snows in Lake of the Woods on Sunday, March 2 at 11 a.m. Services were also …
Naked Man Tasered at Koko’s Motel
A naked man was tasered by a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy at Koko’s Motel on Tuesday, Feb. 19. According to sheriff’s reports, at 8:21 p.m. a deputy was dispatched to a peace disturbance at the …
Beef Products Recalled
By Patric Hedlund
Local markets report they do not carry meat products from a Southern California supplier targeted in an alert calling for destruction of over 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef products. …
Frazier Woman Tells of Chain Reaction Crash
Gayle McNeir of Frazier Park survived a chain reaction crash of eleven vehicles trapped in a sudden tule fog on Highway 166 last month. As rescue professionals struggled to extricate cars smashed under big rigs …
Girls’ Falcon Soccer Sprints To Next Level of Championship
"Most people don’t understand how big it is and how awesome it is that our community has made it this far," Coach Sharon Lemburg said in an interview Monday, Feb. 18. Her Lady Falcon Soccer …
News and Features
Listen to the Audio: Kern County’s Elections Office Falls Prey to Urban Legends
By Gary Meyer
The Kern County Elections Division, in its effort to encourage voter participation, placed recorded messages on its telephone hold system offering some startling "facts" about voting.
For more than a year, callers ...
Teen Recreation Program Launches at Boys & Girls Club
By Kristina Graves, Boys & Girls Club
Now there is always something to do. Teen Night is lighting up Friday evenings for local youth. As if our local Boys & Girls Club isn’t a community ...
Head Start Still At Risk
Parents determined to keep a classroom-based Head Start program here scored early success in efforts to meet demands of Community Action Partnership of Kern, but see signs the program is targeted to be slashed anyway, ...
Man Convicted of Arson in Day Fire
In a press release from the Los Padres National Forest administration and Mt. Pinos District Ranger Tom Kuekes, on Wednesday, Feb. 20 it was announced that Steven Emory Butcher was found guilty of starting the ...
The Ridge Route Restoration Association
The Ridge Route Restoration Association was hard at work. Saturday, Feb. 16 with a "Clean up the Ridge Route" party, a regular rodeo of boulder wrangling as they removed fallen rocks and cleared drains on ...
Fire and Ice
Greet Candidates for County Supervisor At Town Hall
Report and photos by Patric Hedlund
On Friday, Feb. 8 three of the four contenders who are competing for the office of District 4 County Supervisor navigated ...
Science Fair Fever is Here
El Tejon Science Fair Is Thursday, Friday
El Tejon School students set up their science projects on Wednesday, Feb. 20 in the El Tejon School gymnasium, with judging slated for the morning of February 21.
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- For the Record: Darren Hager is President of LCWD
- Come Rock, Roll N’ Vote
- Rotary Cleans Roads Saturday, Seeks Hands
- Bakersfield Family Medical Center Opens in Frazier Park
- Robotics Count Down: Week 6
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- Pine Mountain Learning Center Charter Renewed For Five Years
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