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: FIRE IN LAKE OF THE WOODS AREA
UPDATE—LAKE OF THE WOODS / LOCKWOOD VALLEY, CA (Thursday, Jan. 19 at 8:46 a.m.)—Information officer for Los Padres National Forest, Andew Madsen, sent this note at 8:41 a.m. in which he refers to television news …
Breaking News: Director of Kern County Libraries, Diane Duquette, Resigns
PINE MOUNTAIN / BAKERSFIELD / FRAZIER PARK, CA (Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 at 2:30 p.m.)— Diane Duquette, the recently embattled director of Kern County’s library system, has submitted her resignation. The Pine Mountain community resident …
Breaking News: Water Pipes Bursting from Freezing Temperatures
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 at 12:58 p.m.)–Frazier Park Public Utility District (FPPUD) has reported that water customers’ pipes have burst due to recent freezing temperatures. The district is asking water customers to …
Casino Talk Increases as Branch of Tejon Tribe Wins Federal Recognition
By Patric Hedlund
A branch of the Tejon Indian Tribe has regained its place on the list of federally recognized tribes. Although the tribe entered into a treaty with the United States government in 1851 …
The Heroes Who Kept Sports Programs Alive
Parents Raise over $40,000 so Kids Can Play
By Patric Hedlund
Last summer, parents and students turned out in droves, hundreds of them, to fight to keep their interscholastic competitive sports programs at Frazier Mountain …
Athlete Killed in Pine Mountain Accident
By Patric Hedlund
A 19-year-old Thousand Oaks woman was killed in a bicycling accident in Pine Mountain on New Year’s Eve morning. Sarah Galbawy was riding down the steep grade of Woodland Drive at about …
Investigation Closed on Death of Bobcat in Trap
California Department of Fish and Game investigators said this week that the inquiry into the death of a bobcat left to die inside a “live trap” in the Pine Mountain community is now a closed …
Breaking News: Meeting Held To Explain First Solar’s Future Goals
UPDATE By Patric Hedlund ANTELOPE VALLEY, FAIRMONT, NEENACH, CA (Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 at 8:30 p.m.)—The weather was beginning to take on a desert chill tonight in the Western Antelope Valley when executives for First …
Breaking News: Fire Crews Respond to House Fire in Pine Mountain
Pine Mountain, CA (Sunday, Jan. 15 at 1 p.m.)—The Kern County Fire Department says its news report system is not working currently. They called with this report:
On Saturday, Jan. 14 at approximately 6:16 a.m. …
News and Features
Concert Violinist to Perform at Frazier Park Library Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Violinist Tamara Gyulnazarova will be appearing Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 5:30 p.m. with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major at the new Frazier Park Library. The event is open to the public. ...
Brush Fire Burning in Lockwood Valley
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 at 12:32 p.m.)–Community reporter Chuck Noble brought photos showing a corral, barn and trailer where the fire appears to have started. Click through the photos at right to ...
Space Station Passes Over Frazier Mountain
By Jim and Fae Lumsden
These photos show our experiment to record the International Space Station (ISS) on January 6, 2012, as seen from our Eagle’s Perch home at 6,000 feet. This is our “inholding” ...
Pine Mountain Couple Escapes Major Injury in Head-on Collision
By Patric Hedlund
Albert ‘A.J.’ Durocher was taking his wife Frances to have fajitas for dinner at La Sierra Restaurant in Frazier Park on Friday, Jan. 6. They were driving east out of Pine Mountain ...
Kern County Jobless Rate Is Dropping
Kern County’s unemployment rate dropped from 16.2 percent in December 2010 to 13.4 percent in November 2011. Local unemployment rates followed the same trends as the state and national average during the nationwide economic downturn. ...
Economic Development on our Doorstep
Congress has been snipping away at the federal budget, cutting some rural development programs. We asked Angel Cottrell to report how our local programs are affected.
By Angel Cottrell, SBDC of WEV
Services of our ...
High Speed Rail Grapevine Alignment Loses Support
By Gary Meyer and Patric Hedlund
The staff of California’s High Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) released a study on January 9 that recommends the agency drop further consideration of an Interstate 5 Grapevine alignment for ...
Wikipedia Goes Offline to Protest Internet Cenorship Bill
CYBERSPACE (January 17, 2012 at 2:21 p.m.)—Tomorrow many of your favorite internet sites and tools will be on strike. A broad protest against two bills currently in Congress is being waged by Wikipedia, Google, Mozilla ...
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