Water Rate Hike Public Hearing and Vote Scheduled for Frazier Park

By Gary Meyer

The Frazier Park Public Utility District (FPPUD) has been explaining to customers this year that repairs and upgrades still need to be made to the system which was built in 1926. Last ...

First Human Death In California from West Nile Virus This Year Hits Bakersfield

Compiled from Kern County Press Release

The Kern County Department of Public Health sadly announced the death of a Kern County resident from complications of a neuroinvasive West Nile virus infection, spokesperson Boyce Dulan, M.D. ...

Tasty Tejon Tidbits Circulated by NIMBY

Jan de Leeuw, moderator of his Cuddy Valleybased NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) listserv has an interest in issues related to development—especially the development ambitions of the Tejon Ranch Company (TRC). This month he has ...

Evacuation Order for Zaca Fire West of Pine Mountain

Drought Requires Extreme Caution To Prevent Fires In All Areas

Almost 85% of our Mountain Community residents are estimated to have evacuated last September when the Day fire rushed into Lockwood Valley, threatening Pine Mountain ...

Kern Capital Improvements Workshop Set For July 30

Public Asked to Comment on Important Plans About this Area’s Future

If you want to gaze into the crystal ball to see where Kern County expects to invest money in the Mountain Communities between 2008 ...

Youth Access to Alcohol Coalition Meeting July 25

By Kim Volkmar

This is a friendly reminder of our upcoming Youth Access to Alcohol Coalition Meeting, to be held Wednesday, July 25 at 6:30 p.m.

We have confirmed the meeting location at Frazier Park ...

CSA-40, Ambulance Tax Teleconference Set for Thursday

On Thursday, July 19 a conference is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. at the PMC Clubhouse Pool Pavilion to review the status of the effort to re-purpose water treatment plant money in Pine Mountain (CSA-40) to ...

FFA Says ‘Please Bring Home the Bacon’

By Barbara Rosen

The Future Farmers of America and Ag Booster Club have officially kicked off their latest fundraiser, the Third Annual “Bring Home the Bacon” Drawing. The winner of this drawing will receive custom ...