UPDATE—LEBEC, CA (Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 8:37 p.m.)—Here is an official update and summary from Kern County Fire Department: The Kern County Fire Department received reports of two grassfires along the I-5 freeway across …

How do they do it? Joan and Rick Kotnik have a grey water irrigation and conservation strategy for staying green through the drought in Lake of the Woods. Their secrets can help us all. 

By Joan Kotnik, LOW water customer

While the Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company looks for a solution to its water supply problem, at our home we are adapting to the shortage with several solutions of our own. Our lawns

Mark your calendar for July 11 for the Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Co. meeting, 7 p.m. at Cuddy Hall. All LOW residents are invited to attend this informational meeting. Consulting hydrologist Mark Magargee …

PINE MOUNTAIN, CA (Friday, July 5, 2013 at 9:30 a.m.)—A small earthquake rumbled near the Pine Mountain community early Friday morning at about 12:41 a.m.

According to the US Geological Survey, the quake was magnitude 3.0 at a depth of 8.1 miles. The location was four miles northwest of the Pine Mountain community on the San Andreas fault.

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 …

Carolyn Ziegler-Davenport is a mild woman with a good sense of humor. She has the finesse of a public relations professional…because she spent a career in that role. But over the past two months she has become openly outraged about the lack of meaningful response from the Los Padres National Forest on issues of concern to her community.

Do you need a hunting license? Come to a Hunter Education Class on July 6 at Alpine Lumber, 3320 Mt. Pinos Way in Frazier Park, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The minimum age …

Water in California—the water projects and our aquifers—is the topic that Gary Moore of the Pyramid Lake Vista del Lago Visitor Center will talk about Saturday, July 6 at the Condor Group’s Sierra Club Dessert Social starting at 6:30 p.m.

The workshop by Steve Sanders on how to build dynamic nonprofit boards (with secrets for smart grant writing) was delivered to a full house of over 55 Mountain Community residents in April.

Mark your calendar: …

Registration is being taken now for Art Camp July 15-19

Forty scholarships to Art Camp 7 are available this summer for children being raised by single parents, foster parents or grandparents, Camp is July 15-19, …

A $1,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor has funded the Kern County Superintendent of Schools (KCSOS) to give out-of-school youths 17 to 22 years of age a chance to work toward their high school diplomas while being paid to work on community service projects.

Coordinator Patrick Moore told The Mountain Enterprise he will extend the YouthBuild deadline for Frazier Mountain area candidates to July 12 (from July 8) and will accept applications by email or fax.

FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 8:45 a.m.)—a two-vehicle collision on Frazier Mountain Park Road, east of the lower Mt. Pinos Way intersection required Kern County firefighters to extricate one person from a four-door Nissan Altima this morning.

Ongoing

• Dave da Handyman Scholarship Fund helps send a child to Summer Art Camp. Scholarships available—families with financial need may apply at the Family Resource Center, 3015 Mt. Pinos Way, Frazier Park. Spaces limited.

• Our …